In this continuation of our matrix series, we go deeper into three interwoven constructs - healthcare, banks/money, and so-called “artificial intelligence” - and how they function as false authorities only because we hand them our power. This isn’t a hit piece on people. It’s an illumination of ideas. As I say up front, I’m fiery - earth and fire in my blueprint - but I’m not condemning. Good/bad, right/wrong are outdated frames. Like Morpheus says, the matrix is a prison for the mind, a shadow we mistake for the body. I’m pointing at the shadow so you can see the light.

We begin with healthcare. I share the story of visiting friends and being struck by the drumbeat of pharmaceutical commercials - slick narratives that say, “You’re doing the natural things - eating real food, moving your body - and it’s still not enough. Take the pill.” I offer a personal example: my dad was put on a preventative cholesterol drug even without high cholesterol, and later told it would be “dangerous” to stop. The point isn’t that doctors are villains; it’s that the system replicates nature poorly and becomes self-serving. I highlight the placebo effect to illustrate the mind’s role in healing and argue that much of the system is a copy of true health. When we forget this, we surrender authority to white coats and acronyms instead of listening to our bodies and living in simple alignment - real food, movement, sunlight, and rest.

From there we move to banks and money. In nature, value flows through exchange - what I have in excess covers your lack, and vice versa. Tribes live this way. Yet we’ve assigned a monetary price to everything - food, water, land - and then centralized the levers (interest, inflation, access) so thoroughly that abundance dies on the vine. I contrast U.S. food waste with global hunger to show the distortion: it’s not that we can’t share; it’s that we won’t because the price tag says no. I’m not calling that evil - I’m asking us to look at results. I point to cryptocurrency as a tool that could move us toward sounder exchange and, ultimately, a world with less need for currency at all, and I mention the Venus Project as a vision of resource-based living driven by available technology.

Finally, we tackle “AI.” I call artificial intelligence an oxymoron: what is artificial isn’t intelligent, and what is intelligent isn’t artificial. In practice, it’s a confirmation-bias mirror - the apex of human narcissism - polishing and returning our own beliefs. I’ve seen people get opposite “truths” from their bots based on what they feed them. When we treat that mirror as an oracle, we don’t become wiser; we outsource discernment. I even note emerging pathologies like people falling in love with their bots—a sign of isolation and self-infatuation the matrix rewards.

The through-line is authority. Government, corporations, religions, healthcare, banks, and “AI” are not mothers and fathers. They are ideas - useful only when they serve life. I don’t vote, not out of apathy, but because I refuse to abdicate self-governance. As Jurassic Park warned, we were so busy asking if we could that we didn’t ask if we should. Let’s ask now. Next week I’ll share what I do believe - practical, life-giving shifts we can embody so the matrix serves through us, not over us.

Elevate your alpha, brothers.