![]() ![]() Policy makers have a choice between the economy and exchange rates. I hate to be the one to write yet again about the exchange rate, especially since we still have not really gotten over all the debates, we had in 20. Except that in this instance the choice is between the economy and the exchange rate. In some sense policy makers, especially those at the central bank, face the same choice. The world in which the machines had taken over and in which most humans had been turned into batteries. On the other hand, he could take the red pill and learn the truth about the actual real world. On the one hand he could take the blue pill and forget everything he had learned, waking up as if from a dream, and continuing to believe that the world he thought he lived in was the real world. One of my favourite scenes in the movie is the part where Morpheus (one of my favourite characters) offers Neo (the “actor” as we say in these parts) a choice in the form of two pills which he could choose to swallow. If you have not seen the movie then you really need to re-evaluate your life choices. Not the rectangular array of numbers in mathematics but the movie about machines who enslave humans and turns us into batteries while convincing us to accept it because we don’t really know believing that the world, we think we live in is real whilst in reality it is a dream. If taking the Red Pill has awakened you to the reality in which you live, you will now be able to take the journey toward understanding the interconnectedness of fossil energy and the exponential and “unnatural” growth of us as a species how and why we have caused massive ecological destruction and overshoot of our natural resources and how better to cope and thrive when confronted with the difficulties that lie ahead in our changing environment.I am a big fan of The Matrix. So, what does this have to do with the film 8 Billion Angels? EVERYTHING in this paradigm, our Matrix, exists because of fossil energy. The plane that carries my son home from college. The sun’s energy that we consumed from eating plants and animals was now suddenly abundant, not as food or us to eat or drink, but as food for machines that could produce 100-1000 times the work of each of us, allowing for prodigious amounts of materials to be extracted, extruded and delivered to our new “reality”.Įverything we touch, feel and see around us are The Xs and O’s of the Matrix that were revealed to Neo when he was “awakened”. However, 250 years ago we figured out how to exploit fossil energy- coal, oil and gas – and overnight our reality transformed. For most of this period, we also struggled to grow significantly because the balance of energy expended to hunt and gather food did not deviate greatly from the energy harvested from those efforts. I know what you’re thinking, “Terry, what pills are YOU taking?” Stay with me.įor almost 200,000 years, our ancestors depended on catching and gathering food derived from the energy of the sun, and as long as the energy we consumed was greater than the energy we expended in the process of consuming it we survived. Everything around you, the computer or phone you are reading this on, the chair or car you are sitting in, the coffee or bottled water you are drinking, are what you know. This world into which you were born is all you know, and it’s comfortable because it is familiar. Red Pill Readers: Buckle up and keep reading… Later, he is contacted by those that “know” and he is offered the choice between gaining knowledge and freedom by understanding the reality of his existence (The Red Pill), or continuing to live a life of security through blissful ignorance (The Blue Pill).īlue Pill Readers: Click the X at the top right of your screen and go back to business as usual. In the movie, The Matrix, Keanu Reeves’ character, Neo, observes his current life and senses foreboding, a palpable feeling that something else is unfolding around him to which he and everyone else is oblivious.
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