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.
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