Blog 3

After watching the movie Matrix I am asking myself the question what pill I will choose. Neo decide to take the red pill and face the desert of the real. Like the most people I think that will be my choice too, to learn the truth about the reality. Neo is confused and has a lot of questions. What is the Matrix? I have the same questions like how do we know the truth? Do we also live in the Matrix? Are we controlled by the machines? We can never know if there is someone who controls our mind. From the book Ignorance, Peter Unger suggests the possibility that all of us are controlled by an evil scientist. That our bodies and brains are separated, and the scientist is stimulating our brains. Deceives us into thinking all of the things around us are real. That actually our bodies are in a pod of pink goo like all the millions of pods in the matrix. And we are all born in prison for our mind. Morpheus tells that to Neo. But worse than that is to be in prison where you cannot escape.
Education means to “lead out” as the prisoner is lead out of the cave and Neo is lead out of the Matrix. When Neo decides to take the red pill he doesn’t get an answer for his question, what is the Matrix? Morpheus just tells him to believe in himself. Neo believes Morpheus and for him that’s true. And he is justified in believing in it. From all the experiences he had, Neo believes all his life was a dream until he wakes up in the reality. We also have to believe and to be saved. Neo would endure anything rather than return to false reality.

Blog 2

Through struggle we gain knowledge. Self knowledge is the key, and without it we can unlock no other knowledge worth having. In the movie Matrix Neo is seeking answers from the Oracle just like Socrates is from the priestess of the Apollo. The Oracle is showing Neo the sign “Know Thyself”. Neo has to know himself and believe in himself, and then to fulfill the Prophesy and free humanity.
Neo and the others in the Matrix are born in the world that for them is real. Like in the Socrates cave the prisoners are chained and live their whole life in the cave. One of the prisoners gets free and then he realize that the world that he was living is not real and there is more to life. In the movie Neo is freed from the Matrix. First he cannot accept that all his life he had been living in a dream. And he has to prove to himself that is the real world, and to help the others.
Morpheus believes Neo is the one, he tells him that he was born in a world that is prison for the mind. And that he needs to free his mind. He was the chosen one and like Jesus was chosen to spread the word of God. Jesus was helping and feeding the people, he was doing miracles turning the rocks into bread and fish. And Neo had power to stop the machines that were attacking the ship. He also had power to fight and fly. Neo is on a mission to save the human race and Socrates is on a mission to wake up the people so they can join him in seeking knowledge. Socrates realized that the unexamined life is not worth living. Mind is more important than matter.

Blog 1

In the Allegory of the cave, the prisoners in the cave know that the shadows thrown on the wall by the fire behind them are real. To the prisoners the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. After so many years we can still relate it to our everyday lives. Some people still live in their own realm of reality and I believe each one of us is still a prisoner in our own Allegory of the cave. We see Allegory of the cave as an illusion ones self reality, it is a distortion of all reality. We have to open our eyes and see the world around us. We have to break free to see the truth.
Like one of the prisoners we must walk from the darkness into the light. Stepping out of the cave and seeing the sun represents enlightenment, and opens a better understanding about life. Then the prisoner goes back to the darkness of the cave to free other prisoners. But they reject him and threaten to kill him. That is a direct representation of our typical behaviors in society. If I were in Socrates cave I would break free from the chain and take a step outside from the things that are familiar to me inside the cave, to see the world and learn more about life.
I believe at this point in my life I feel like that I was a prisoner in the cave who finally broke away from the chains. Once in a while I wander back to the cave not to forget where I came from.

About Me

My name is Nadica, I was born in small town Kocani Macedonia which is located in Eastern Europe. I finished High School there and after school I started working in a café in my local town. After 2 years of working there I decided to try and get a work visa and come to the United States and fulfill a destiny that I have always wanted. I got my visa and I have been here for 2 years working and traveling. I really like this country so that is way I decided to stay here and go to college. Because English is not my first language I had some concern that I would not do well at school. But I am going to do my best, study hard because I think the education is very important.
The first year when I came in the United States I worked and lived in Wildwood, New Jersey. I worked in an Amusement park and worked as a ride operator. I stayed there for six months and I met my future husband. After Wildwood I moved to New York where now I live together with my husband in Sunnyside Queens.
My parents and my whole family still live in my hometown. It is very hard to be without my parents but I am hoping soon they will come here and join me. They are the ones who influenced me to go to college and succeed in life.
Now at this point of my life my goal is to graduate from LaGuardia Community College and make something more of myself. I hope one day I will be successful and accomplish all my career goals.