The One

(Updated from one year ago…)

Trinity: I know why you’re here, Dharmaniac. I know what you’ve been doing… why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You’re looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn’t really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It’s the question that drives us, Dharmaniac. It’s the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.

Will He Run?

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Morpheus: We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was them that scorched the sky.

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Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Dharmaniac. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, The Democratic Leadership. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

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Morpheus: Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain. But you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?

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Agent Smith: I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet

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Al Gore’s phone rings, late at night…
Al: Hello?
Morpheus: Hello, Al. Do you know who this is?
Al: Morpheus?
Morpheus: Yes. I’ve been looking for you, Al. I don’t know if you’re ready to see what I want to show you, but unfortunately, you and I have run out of time. They’re coming, Al, and I don’t know what they’re going to do to the planet.
Al: Who’s coming?
Morpheus: Stand up and see for yourself.
Al: What, right now?
Morpheus: Yes, now.

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Morpheus: I imagine that right now, you’re feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Al: You could say that.
Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that’s not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Al?

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Morpheus: What are you waiting for? You’re faster than this. Don’t think you are, know you are. Come on.

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Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.
Al: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Al: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

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Trinity: What’s he doing?
Morpheus: He’s beginning to believe.

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Oracle: OK, now I’m supposed to say, “Hmm, that’s interesting, but…” then you say…
AL: …”but what?”
Oracle: But… you already know what I’m going to tell you.
AL: I’m The One!

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AL: I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid… you’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.