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The Red Pill

In the film " The Matrix ", there is a scene where a young computer hacker Neo ( Keanu Reeves ) is with the leader of the resistance called Morpheus ( Laurence Fishburne ). The hero, Neo was made to face the reality of his situation, that he has been living in an artificial virtual construct designed by the machines to keep his mind occupied, while his body is used to generate energy and that he is a slave being used by the machines.  And if he wanted to see the "real world" and be "free", he would have to swallow a red pill, the red pill in a manner of speaking will open his eyes or the scales will drop off from his eyes, liberate his mind, take his own destiny in his own hands and he will be in the real world. Or take the blue pill and remain in blissful ignorance, dream land, controlled by machines and remain as a slave as it were, as a biological battery. He was given the choice between the red pill and a blue pill Morpheus : "This is your

12 Rules of Life

This is a book that a lot of people said "save their lives", in a world of conflicting signals, this book is laying down the rules, literally in this case. In essence what Dr Peterson is saying if you want your life to have meaning, follow these rules. He is not apologetic about his approach and he is said to put in words what a lot of people were thinking. The main ethos of the book is that modern Western philosophy has missed it way, and allowed itself to be misled by the radical left, which has successfully insinuated themselves in western Universities. That a person should take more responsibilities for their actions, and these actions have consequences. Life is not easy, but hard, especially if you want to move forward in life and make something of it. He has 12 rules and each one seems to have its own chapter. With his extensive knowledge, in mythology, politics, fairy tales, philosophy, religion, science, modern culture - Homer Simpson, movies - Superman, etc he sta

Long term repeated brain injury - Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

The brain is judged to be a complex organ, having more processing power than most current present-day computers. After hearing a series of audible tapes, I now understand how complex the brain is. Just listening to a free documentary on audible about brain injury. It was captioned "The beautiful brain" by Ms Hana Walker-Brown . It is divided into four beautiful articles on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy(CTE ), a degenerative, progressive brain disease resulting from repeated brain injury. These articles are  A Glass Half Full :  This is the story of  FA Cup winner Jeff Astle  playing for West Bromwich, who deteriorated right before his family because of his condition. He had repeatedly headed the football. An Inconvenient Truth : Dr Bennet Omalu discovered and named the condition known as CTE in American football player Mark Webster .  The Punch-Drunk Wife : Women whose husbands repeatedly beat them. Long Live the King : Summary and progress made so far. The life

Cov-19 - Just like an another pandemic movie

During these dark times of Corona Virus being at home is not easy, what else is there to brighten one's day, then watching movies about epidemics, government cover-ups and compulsory enforced military curfew. Netflix has been satisfying people's curiosity by showing Outbreak  (1995) and Contagion  (2011). But it seems a lot of people have been getting their information from movies. The story behind "Outbreak" is that the US government had discovered the Motaba virus in 1967 in Zaire, Africa, which is a form of Viral Haemorrhagic Fever . The US military took blood samples and then incinerated the whole village with the hope of controlling it. Meanwhile, they had weaponized the virus and as the film insinuated, keeping it a secret as they had the perfect biological weapon, to which they only had the cure to it. Then, we were brought to the present day, unfortunately, a monkey from Africa, "escaped" quarantine and it's effects was let loose on a populati