Who am I?

I didn't see The Matrix until it came out on DVD. The movie helped millions of people realize all at once that, yes, we do live in a completely false world. The lies of the government, Hollywood, bankers and media started to get more obvious over the next 20 years too. Quite a few people then drew the conclusion that the matrix is a contrivance of the oligarchy... so if people could overthrow the oligarchs we would be out of the matrix.

Wrong.

Who is the "you" that watched The Matrix? It's actually your strawman, or your ego who watched the movie. It's like you were Neo in the Matrix watching the Matrix DVD. Then you proceed to try to get out of the Matrix using the tools and materials of the matrix itself.

Who or what is that strawman? The strawman is a subset of your consciousness--it's the mental model version of yourself that lives in your self-created matrix.

It lives in the parallel universe of our consciousness and imagination. There is so much emphasis and focus on the strawman that people think it is absolutely real. A process of indoctrination and training convinces people, from an early age that the shadow world of their imagination is the real world--they think they live in a map rather than real reality.

Lets expand on that with one concrete example: social stigma of shitty car ownership. Many people believe they must own a new, clean car. Advertisers placed one notion in their head: "I will be happy if I have a fancy new car"--somehow that gets inverted to the belief that car ownership is part of social status maintenance, i.e. "If I don't own a fancy new car, I am trash." There are, of course, myriad variations on that theme.

How does that actually work? In the fancy car owners mind, their strawman is subject to imagined bullying and scorn that probably dates back to childhood indoctrination and trauma experienced in school. The car owner confuses this parallel universe reality for the real world. The imagined parallel universe is strictly in the car owner's consciousness.

In reality, others barely notice cars unless they are new and interesting or old junky and interesting, and then it's only for a moment. The same thing applies to clothes, shoes, haircuts, houses, etc...

The model reality in the parallel dimension of the strawman is vast and varied and spills over into the real world. The "god" of that shadow realm is unfortunately the big God of the Bible. It's the literal triangle god.

The shadow world is not the real world. The strawman is not "you". The triangle god is the god of that realm, not the real world.