What is reality? This seems to be an easy question to answer but it isn’t. Philosopher through time had spend their entire lives questioning themselves between what is real or what is not real. There are so many different version of reality that they don’t know which is which. Instead, philosophers define reality as the state of things that could actually exist through imagination but whether or not it’s comprehensible depending on the person’s perspective. In the movie, “The Matrix’’, a man named Neo who ask himself this one question, “What’s The Matrix?” He finds himself through a journey between two different version of reality which is, one, everyone follows what others do and don’t even question themselves about it and the actually one
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In my perspective of reality is that people go along with the environment they’re in and not questioning whether or not the world they are living is real. Therefore in order to find out the true meaning of reality, people need to reason themselves along the way so they can understand what they see or think could be misunderstood.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave distinguish prisoners who are in a cave, believing that shadows are their version of reality. They need to understand that what they see on the wall isn’t real, in fact, there are more to it. When one of the prisoners was free, he was able to experience the outside world and everything he saw was the same thing but in real life. …show more content…
For example, a meaningful objective supposes to represent something special, however, as time goes by that object become meaningless because people misinterpret it for something else and that is what we as a society goes through. In the movie, everything in the real world is normal, then technology became a thing toward our society, however as we continue of using it, technology has stimulated the human race which created the matrix. This is related to Baudrillard viewpoint of reality because everything that was used became useless over the years, creating meaningless toward an object even our society as well. Therefore, the matrix does reflect some aspect of Baudrillard views of reality where everything starting from the beginning till the end became useless over
In my perspective of reality is that people go along with the environment they’re in and not questioning whether or not the world they are living is real. Therefore in order to find out the true meaning of reality, people need to reason themselves along the way so they can understand what they see or think could be misunderstood.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave distinguish prisoners who are in a cave, believing that shadows are their version of reality. They need to understand that what they see on the wall isn’t real, in fact, there are more to it. When one of the prisoners was free, he was able to experience the outside world and everything he saw was the same thing but in real life. …show more content…
For example, a meaningful objective supposes to represent something special, however, as time goes by that object become meaningless because people misinterpret it for something else and that is what we as a society goes through. In the movie, everything in the real world is normal, then technology became a thing toward our society, however as we continue of using it, technology has stimulated the human race which created the matrix. This is related to Baudrillard viewpoint of reality because everything that was used became useless over the years, creating meaningless toward an object even our society as well. Therefore, the matrix does reflect some aspect of Baudrillard views of reality where everything starting from the beginning till the end became useless over