In recent years there is a call to wake up and leave the system to achieve freedom. Perhaps a direct allusion is the Matrix film trilogy that opened on the eve of the 21st century. A dystopian world dominated by artificial intelligence that uses human beings as batteries for machines; while living in virtual reality. A very gloomy and dark world, whose theme reflects fears framed within the real possibility of the progress of our civilization, or perhaps it indicates what we currently live beyond the philosophical.

With the rise of the internet, information is just a click away: as well as the belief of access to power and greater freedom. However, every day we are more confined to limited space within large cities: not only because of Covid19 but also because of the ineptitude learned to live in remote areas without the comforts and benefits of cities. In this sense, modern man feels empowered.

Using the power of the internet, we enter deep waters in search of making connections to read between the lines and free ourselves from the Matrix. The problem is, in part, who made the glasses we use. Who assures that the information is truthful: nobody. As you advance, the waters go from light blue to intense dark. Without an adequate reference standard: be condemned to be lost.

Alienation is an uncomfortable word for many by the associated ideology. I remember hearing it for the first time within Marxist theories. Although for the great Matrix, the use of the term is instrumental, that is, it serves to administer domination to people without hardly perceiving it.

Therefore, regardless of the discipline (medicine, religion, philosophy, sociology, or politics) that the term is approached; The different meanings have in common: the absence of a free will, that is, the denial of the exercise of freedom.

I think that living is, probably intended, to achieve full freedom in a world that conspires to keep you numb and subjugated. Without reliable references, the task becomes daunting. Where to find the truth? From an objective perspective, to what extent are you alienated, without being considered crazy? Subjectively, the task is difficult but not impossible. The act of writing and reading on the subject indicates the desire for true freedom.

Asking core questions about the why of things and developing a critical attitude are part of an adequate method for emancipation in these times where alienating forces that use propaganda to regulate the mind of the citizen are evident, or should I say, of the individual. Perhaps, the notion of the citizen is a symbolism of what they aspire to from us in the era of the politically correct and of tolerance for the unnatural. Perhaps the Matrix trilogy is part of the predictive propaganda and not an alternate vision of its creators. Even these are living examples of the beliefs that are inoculated today.

I am alienated! But I try to escape beyond Marx as well as his counterparts. Wings of the same bird.