An Uprising after a Stopover in a Quiet Town in the Matrix

Ok, sometimes my mind wanders pretty far out there. I remember someone once calling me a space cadet. I was offended at the time, but now I realize that in a way, she was right. On that note, I was thinking the other day that maybe we don’t realize that we are animals in some cosmic cage, a secret lab run by higher beings, or aliens, or the government. Maybe we are just like the proverbial 'hamster on the wheel', spinning and spinning.

I was reminded of an episode of Twilight Zone, called “Stopover in a Quiet Town.”  A married couple from New York is attending a party outside the city. They have a little too much to drink and wake up in a strange house. Now, that doesn't seem unusual, it happens. (Don't worry, I'm not judging, but don't drink and drive like this guy did). Back to the strange house. It's in a strange town and everything is eerily quiet and eerily void of human activity.  Spoiler Alert!! Here is a clip of the ending.

So, what if like this couple, we are just living dolls, walking around in a world full of props? For those of you who want me to speak in “modern” terms, think of the movie The Matrix.  Reality was not reality at all, but a computer simulation created by machines to keep humans too preoccupied, too comfortable to seek the truth, and to rebel. That reminds me a of a Muse song...

"Green belts wrapped around our minds and endless red tape to keep the truth confined.." Makes you think, doesn't it?

Now, these thoughts are extreme, I know. We may not be living in an illusion, or a dollhouse, or a computer simulation. The government or people in power may not be trying to control us (they certainly aren't doing a very good job right now anyway, we're on to their games). The point is to remember to keep your eyes and mind open. Be who you are, live the life you want to. Don’t be too preoccupied to seek the truth, to discover who you are and explore the world around you.  Don’t let the ‘fat cats’ sell you their lies and take your money while you break your back keeping up with the Joneses. There is so much to learn, so much to know, so much to find, so much to experience, don't get stuck in a quiet town in the Matrix. Or just tell me to take my paranoid delusions and wandering brain elsewhere.