After re-watching the Matrix Reloaded I believe I may have judged the film way too harshly in my youth. 

Alright, warrior. Let's talk about the Matrix Reloaded and how I might have been a little too quick to judge that movie. Now don't get me wrong. I still take some issue with the overarching plot choice of the film, but I took an opportunity last night to re watch it on. I've got some thoughts that I think may be beneficial to all of us to think about. Speaking of thinking, I want to say it Ah, lot because we live in a world where context and nuance or being lost, that bothers may. It scares me a little bit that people are actually actively behaving in a way that makes our minds and our hearts week, you know, running from ideas that oppose the things we believe. No, no. Lean into that that is there to challenge you, to refine your belief, not to take it away from you, Right? The things that oppose you are designed to balance you out, not to destroy you, Right? But if you have too much neuroticism, too much of a scaredy cat, you're gonna vilify everything that disagrees with you and want to fight it and destroy it. That's why you see extremists in any sect of the world, right? Trying to kill people either figuratively or literally, and that wanting to kill or destroy actually is born out of fear. Nobody wants to kill someone just because today's Thursday, I guess I'm recording this on a Friday, right? Anyway, I speaking of thinking, one of the things I want to say often on these shows because I wanna have a record of it when inevitably people are gonna take umbrage with the things I say. And that's fine. Take all the umbrage like, uh, but I am watching the trend of my popularity start to grow. Uh, and much to my dismay, have tried to keep what I'm doing. Very niche for a long time. And now, I guess, theme universe, God, serendipity, whatever. Has decided that it's time for me to have some time in the spotlight. I really don't like the spotlight that much, but whatever. Yeah, but I want to say this the things that I say whenever I'm doing a tick tock, I'm doing one of these podcasts. I'm doing a YouTube livestream. Everyone listening needs to understand that my discussions, my presentations, lectures, whatever you wanna call them are an interesting orchestra of rhetoric mixed with some facts. Some things that we believe are true, right? I think all facts and all truth get better with further investigation, right? I don't know that there's any absolute bottom line truth that a human can perceive because we're always moving forward and growing. And so we need to be careful when we're listening to people speak one we need to listen to understand, But we also need to understand where they're coming from when we say the things we say, right? Like so for me, for example, I think through talking, I can't go into a closed room and think, I love you introverts. Who could do that, right? If being an introvert a real thing. I love that you can lock yourself in a room and think for hours at a time and come up with these great things. I don't do that. The way my brain works is I need to talk out things. So a lot of times when I'm having a discussion, I'm just thinking out loud. I tell people all the time I'm not speaking the gospel. I'm not even speaking what I think might be true. In fact, uh, I joke, and the Matrix reference is that the Matrix discussion is relevant because the Internet has basically decided that my nickname is going to be Morpheus, which I find funny because it's a very narcissistic way, too. Although I do kind of look like Laurence Fishburne. There's a taste of narcissism in that statement because the reason why everyone's calling me Morpheus is because in the story of their life, where they're the hero, they think they're Neil. 

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