You're Stuck In The Matrix, Here's How You Escape

Who wrote the software running in your

head? Are you sure you actually want it

there? That's a part of a tweet from

Elon Musk and I think it helps shape

what we're going to talk about quite

well. Most people haven't practiced

thinking. When you talk to them, you

aren't talking to them. You're talking

to the TV, social media, their parents,

their teachers, their insecurities and

trauma, or even patterns they picked up

from AI. It's very robotic. Everyone

cries about how you need to be more

authentic when they are just paring that

statement from someone else which is

ironic. But the thing is you can't

escape this. This is just how the mind

works. We remember information that is

important to our survival and the more

it's repeated the more efficient it

becomes. The conscious mind can process

around 50 bits of information per second

while the unconscious mind can manage

around 11 million bits of information

per second. If you want to change your

life, your most important life task is

using your limited conscious attention

to become aware of and reprogram what's

happening in the depths of your

unconscious mind. And as Carl Young

said, until you make the unconscious

conscious, it will direct your life and

you will call it fate. So if you can

reprogram this unconscious to move in

the direction of success, then you

achieve success automatically. You don't

have to think about what to do because

you just do it. And most people since

they have not done this are heading off

a cliff by default. They're set on a

specific path at birth. They don't

question that. They become blind to

every action that they take. And their

destination is pure mediocrity. That's

why it's extremely important to

understand what got you into this

situation. And this isn't some surface

level advice of how to change your life.

We're getting to the root of this and

what has gotten us all into this

situation and it's kind of mind-blowing.

So once we go through that and your mind

opens up and you reach this point of

realizing holy crap like this is

actually happening then we'll break down

how to reprogram your mind for automatic

success. So the first thing we need to

talk about is the concept of the social

matrix and we'll start with a quote from

Krishna Murdy. Thought is always

conditioned and therefore thought is

always mechanical. Thinking is mostly

the automatic playback of previously

encoded patterns, not conscious

deliberation. Every thought comes from

memory. Memory is in the past. And when

you are thinking, you are just accessing

stored patterns, not creating something

new. Now, why does this matter? Well,

you're going to have to brace yourself

here because this isn't pretty. I really

want you to pay attention to what's

going on here. There is this logical

sequence of steps, this loop that

composes this social matrix, and the

only way to break out of it is by

understanding it. And if you think we're

talking about the matrix like the movie,

we kind of are. But we're not talking

about some kind of red pill. Oh, you

need to escape the matrix and start a

business and achieve freedom and break

off from society. No, we're not talking

about that. We're talking about

understanding the actual matrix because

there is one. Now, credit where credit

is due. Everything that we're going to

talk about is actually a condensation

and my own thoughts on the video the

social matrix by actualize.org. I would

recommend watching that. It's like 3

hours long. Completely blows your mind.

I love actualize.org in general. Please

subscribe to him. He has shaped my life

in more ways than one. And I owe a lot

to that guy. So let's dive in to what

this actual social matrix is. First, it

starts with your parents. Parents

themselves were brainwashed by the

previous generation. They pass on their

worldview, biases, and beliefs

unconsciously. Most parents only love

and approve of you if you conform to

their values and beliefs. And you

conform because you want to survive. You

don't want to be kicked out of the

house, kicked out of the culture. If you

want to be fed, you're kind of dependent

on your parents. So, you have to conform

to their values. And these parents got

their information from the same system

they're now perpetuating, which we'll

understand. So that leads to the second

thing which is early childhood

conditioning. Language shapes and limits

what you can actually think about. Now

stop and actually think about that for a

second. The only reason you think about

the thoughts that you do is because of

the language you speak that allows you

to articulate those thoughts. Think

about how many things you haven't

thought of or things you could think of

if you weren't bound by a specific

language. Now beyond that, cultural

norms and values are planted in your

head before you can think critically.

Children learn to seek approval by

conforming to authority. That leads to

the third thing, which is that public

schools were explicitly created to

reinforce obedience, as researched by UC

San Diego. Now, whenever we talk about

the education system, this starts to

piss some people off, and that's usually

because they're attached to it. They're

dependent on it in some way or another,

and they were told since they were a

child that that's the thing that they

have to do in order to be successful,

when that's just not the case anymore.

The Prussian education model was

designed as a long-term solution to

social unrest through the

standardization of thought.

Specifically, it was designed to create

obedient soldiers, compliant citizens,

and well- behaved workers. Horus man, an

educator, brought this method to America

when we were first industrializing to

help educate large numbers of immigrant

children. Now this is where mandatory

attendance, training for teachers,

national curriculum and testing for

students, division of students by age,

and the concept of grade levels came

about. Students were taught how to work

and obey, not how to think because

that's what most benefited society. So

what did this lead to? Teachers were

educated by the previous generation in

the same system. The curriculum was

determined by school boards, often

parents, who went through the same

system. The concept of grade levels and

advancement create incentives to

memorize rather than question. The

universities are funded by corporations

with specific agendas. The academic

journals have gatekeepers who went

through the same system. And the

professors must publish and approve

journals to maintain their careers. Now,

here's where it gets very hairy. The

fourth thing is information sources and

authority. Media and the internet are

the primary sources of mass information.

News outlets are owned by corporations

with profit motives. Google search

algorithms prioritize university and

establishment sources, meaning that most

people are getting information from

universities where teachers were trained

by teachers, parents teach their

children, and children learn from

teachers. Wikipedia articles are written

by academics within the school system

that is already heavily biased. Social

media reinforces biases through

echochambers, and entertainment subtly

programs values and worldviews. In

science and academia, scientists and

students rely on faith in thousands of

studies they haven't personally

validated. Research funding comes from

corporations and governments with

agendas. And all of this is most of the

time, not all of the time, but most of

the time is not good. So in other words,

students and scientists trust the

information provided by other students

and scientists who were raised by

parents who got their information from

prior students and scientists. Do you

see the problem with this? The students

and scientists teachers were trained on

government provided material which found

its way into the information sources. In

general, this should just terrify you.

Now, the fifth thing here is that social

media and AI amplify unconsciousness.

Now, the propaganda model for how media

shapes thought by Herman and Chomsky

revealed five filters through which this

media shapes thought. The first is

corporate ownership, then advertising

pressures, sourcing from elites,

organized flat campaigns, and dominant

ideology. So this was a problem with

traditional propaganda. But social media

and AI take it to an entirely new level.

Social media is a mimedic desire

amplification machine. This is one

reason why Peter Teal invested in

Facebook because he understood

mimemetics and knew how powerful it

could be. Social media algorithms say

they show you what you want to see, but

the reality is that they program you to

want what others appear to have. Every

scroll reinforces neural pathways that

lead you to thinking that you actually

want the highlights of someone else's

life. Now, in 2024, the Max Plank

Institute found the first evidence that

chat GPT altered human speech patterns.

So, usage of certain words increased

that AI often used. In other words,

you're starting to talk like the machine

that learned to talk like you. So, like

when you were a kid, language shaped how

critically you could think. Now that our

language is becoming dumber with AI and

immature Gen Z lingo taking over social

media, our minds are slowly narrowing to

further guarantee mediocrity. In the

future, AI will become a foundational

layer that precedes social programming

from parents and schools because

teachers will use AI to teach. Students

will use AI to learn and those students

will go on to be teachers and parents.

So AI is great. It's an amazing

technology. I use it every day. But

there is a certain way that you need to

use it so that you don't become as dumb

as a rock. If you want to understand

that way, go and watch my video. You

have about 36 months to make it. Now,

the last and final thing here, the sixth

thing is that society is rigged against

you. And we're just going to rapidfire

through these because this is getting a

bit long. And I think you get the point

by this point. The need for a job forces

you to be compliant with your boss's

worldview. That boss went through the

same education system. Marketing and

advertising manipulate desires from

childhood. The food industry is

incentivized to poison you because

people can't help but get addicted to

hyper palatable foods which affects

mental clarity. The health care system

profits from illness, not health. Social

circles punish those who question too

deeply and you'll be cast out from the

tribe. Dating and relationships require

conformity, especially if you are lonely

and non-self-reliant. Politicians come

from the same education system.

Therapists come from the same education

system. As you can see, there's a

pattern here. It's a matrix. It has

circular validation. Every entity that

composes society and culture, media,

education science government

business, religion, etc., justifies and

reinforces the others. When one source

is questioned, you're met with

programmed responses from NPCs like

trust the experts or it's in the

textbook or it's the law and it's

tradition. Everything is validated

against the same system. External

validation is not possible. Therefore,

we live in an illusion of our own

construction. So, one, you are born into

a family already programmed by the

matrix. Two, you are conditioned by

language, culture, and early peer

pressure. Three, you are educated in

schools that reinforce the worldview

that benefits the system. Four, you

consume media and entertainment that

further shape your beliefs and desires.

Five, you enter the workforce where

survival depends on conformity. Six, you

participate in social, religious, and

cultural rituals that reinforce group

identity. Seven, you seek information

and validation from sources that are

themselves the products of the matrix.

Eight, you are incentivized to conform

and disincentivized to question. And

nine, you in turn pass on the same

programming to the next generation. So

that begs the question, how in the world

do you actually escape the matrix?

Especially since people who teach you

how to create the matrix are a byproduct

of the matrix. So now is when we talk

about how to reprogram your mind for

automatic success. And we'll start with

another quote from Maxwell Maltz. The

brain and nervous system constitute a

marvelous and complex goal striving

mechanism, a sort of built-in automatic

guidance system that works for you as a

success mechanism or against you as a

failure mechanism depending on how you

the operator operate it and the goals

you set for it. So when we look to

psychology, there are a few things we

know for sure and we need to understand

these before we go into the actual

steps. First is that the mind evolves

and expands through stages of increasing

complexity, making life more interesting

and enjoyable. But you can just as

easily get stuck in a low level for your

entire life. For this, you can see my

article on the model that I created

called human 3.0, but I'll also create a

video on that eventually. I believe

that'll be next week's video. I've been

putting it off because I want it to be

good. Second is that the flow state or

optimal experience and enjoyment stems

from a self-generated goal, complete

clarity on how to achieve it and a level

of challenge that is just above your

skill level. For this, you can see the

work of Mihi Chicks Accept Mihi and

Steven Cutotler. Third is that your mind

interprets reality through a lens of

psychological survival. Your identity

forms around the values and beliefs of

the culture you were raised in, and you

feel threatened when your identity is

threatened. I'm going to create other

videos on survival and ideology in the

future and those are deeper videos than

just what you think of when it comes to

survival and ideology. I really like

epistemology and I'm going to be talking

about that a bit more on this channel.

And fourth, being extreme changes your

brain because it enhances

neuroplasticity, which is your brain's

ability to rewire itself. Novelty,

challenge, and big goals shape how you

process and store information. So, if

you want to make success automatic by

realigning your unconscious toward a

trajectory that will change your life,

here's what you do. The first thing is

create your own matrix. Because the mind

craves order and certainty, that's why

we are so quick to adopt the

psychological infrastructure that others

assign to us. We pursue society's goals

which influence what we deem important

enough to learn which influences the

choices we make which condition those

behaviors as habits that we

unconsciously repeat. So all of this

starts with a goal, a clear vision for

the future. You need to replace the

goals of go to school, get a job, and

retire with something that you generate

and something that is more meaningful.

But many attempt to do this and fail for

one reason. The fear of ending up like

everyone else doesn't outweigh the fear

of discomfort. You can tell yourself

that you deeply care about your goals

all day long, but the reason you don't

change is because another goal is taking

priority and that's unconscious to you.

So, how do you generate a goal so

meaningful that you have no option but

to pursue it? You gain complete

awareness of where your life is heading

if you keep doing the same things. You

question your life and sit with the

discomfort without searching for someone

else to give you the answer. You become

so disgusted that the pain of staying

the same makes the pain of discomfort

feel like a little pinch. You remind

yourself of your anti- vision, the life

you don't want to live, as a reference

point from which you can aim in a

different direction. But then you need

to learn how to navigate the unknown.

That leads to step two, which is to

pursue an interestbased education.

Because the education system has its

perks, but it fails at the one thing

that it's actually supposed to do, which

is to educate. Public schools help with

socialization, teaching you how to write

and read and giving you a base operating

system to become a civilized human. But

if education equals discovery, it is

doing the opposite of just that. You

learn the same topics as everyone else.

You choose from the same classes as

everyone else. You look up the same

high-paying skills and high-paying jobs

as everyone else to enter a race to the

bottom. This is the only path you know

because you haven't begun the process of

self-education. So your mind only works

to achieve the goal of getting a job for

the sake of money and survival. Luckily,

we now live in a world where you can

learn anything and do anything without

permission, which is the next step. But

how do you actually take advantage of

this? It pursuing an interest based

education. You take note of the current

problems with how you are living. These

typically fall within the domains of

health wealth relationships and

finances. So what's wrong with your

health or fitness, how you look, what's

wrong with your financial situation?

What's wrong with your social life or

relationships? There's already problems

there. Pick one. Then you start

exploring the internet and social media

as a curator, not a consumer. You

experiment with various methods without

becoming dogmatic about any of them.

Then you dedicate at least 30 to 60

minutes a day to learning in a way that

directly correlates with your

self-generated goals. And last, you

throw your mind into an entirely

different environment and let your

beliefs be challenged. So what you need

to remember here is that you reprogram

your unconscious by aligning your

actions and learnings with a goal that

was not assigned to you. A goal that you

assigned yourself. So the process is

goal, interpret information, act, make

mistakes, correct mistakes, repeat. If

you can do that, you'll be successful.

Now the third and arguably the most

important step here is that you need to

teach yourself and your children to be

high agency. Agency is the ability to

act without permission. Therefore,

agency is the belief that difficult

tasks can become easy because goals fall

into three buckets. There's easy goals,

which are something we can do with our

current knowledge, skill, and resources.

There's impossible goals, which is

something we can't do or is outside of

the laws of physics. And then there's

difficult goals, so something we can't

do right away, but can eventually do if

we gather the right skills and

resources. Now, imagine if I put a gun

to your head and told you that you have

to bench press 315 lbs within the next

year. You will either interpret that as

impossible because you can't see the way

to get there and then you'll just let

yourself die or you will do everything

in your power to achieve it and you

probably will. And at that point, you

have to learn and educate how to do all

of that stuff and you actually have to

do it. Now, on that topic, I actually

started a side quest channel, a second

channel that is more vlog, a day in the

lifestyle where I'm going to be talking

about fitness and biohacking and even

behind the scenes of building the

startup or building the software. Now,

those things reveal two problems with

how the average person thinks. First,

they have an external locus of control,

believing that all great accomplishments

are a matter of luck rather than skill.

When they need help, they look to their

friends, the government, or anyone else

but themselves. Their first reaction is

to blame, not think, and especially not

take responsibility for their lives. The

second problem is that they are missing

the intersection of importance and

urgency. They have not educated

themselves or experimented to the point

of generating passion around a specific

life task. And they do not have an

awareness of where their life is heading

without that aim. They are not pushed or

pulled in any direction by their own

desire, but they are thrown around like

a puppet by someone else's. Education is

not about math or spelling or historical

facts. It's about instilling agency in

yourself and those who come after you. A

high agency individual will learn

everything that they need to in order to

do what they want to do. A low agency

individual will stay in its nest waiting

for mama bird to bring it a worm. So,

how do you actually begin to practice

agency? What are the practical steps?

First, do not allow others to help you

for as long as possible, even if you

struggle. Two, when you want something,

practice taking small steps to learning

about it and act on it. Three, drop out

of school or request to be homeschooled.

This one holds a lot of baggage for a

lot of people, but only those who think

a lack of credentials will somehow ruin

your life. I will not expand on this

today. Four, consciously expose yourself

to difficult problems at least every 3

to 6 months. build new projects, study

new material, and five, question what

you are supposed to do and make a

different decision. Agency isn't just

taking action, it's deciding what

actions are worth taking. Now, most of

the time, this is going to lead you down

the path of entrepreneurship and

self-direction because schools and jobs

have values that you must conform to if

you want to keep that job. And that

narrows your mind and it limits your

ability to learn and act. Now, step four

is to become a value creator because

humans are toolbuilders. When we've

encountered a problem like being cold,

hungry, or in danger from predators, we

created fire, shelter, and weapons to

hunt and defend. And once those tools

were created, the potential for better

tools allowed for the society we built

today. Nature is brutal. It's not this

kind and loving thing that many hippies

believe it to be. Unless humans had

transformed the earth to be hospitable,

we would be extinct by now and still

drastically underdeveloped. Now, beyond

that, becoming a creator is central to

living a good life. Because happiness

and enjoyment are the combination of

progress being made and a contribution

to something greater than yourself. Both

are accomplished by solving problems for

yourself and others. Problems are solved

through creativity. The intersection of

purpose and profit lies in creating

solutions to problems you deem

interesting and passing those solutions

down to contribute to humanity. You

become able to solve more complex

problems because you become equipped

with more knowledge, skill, and

resources. Life gets better as problems

shift from shallow to meaningful. Now,

it just so happens that the highest

leverage place to create right now is on

the internet. The internet is the path

of high agency. You don't need

permission to create something and post

it on the internet. You don't need

permission to navigate idea space and

find the information you need. This may

change in the future, but that only

reinforces the point. No matter if it's

the internet or intergalactic space or

virtual reality, the answer has been and

always will be to share the value you

acquire in a place where the right

people can find it. That is it for this

video. If you want resources on building

a highv value skill stack or becoming a

creator, not necessarily a content

creator, but your nature, expressing

your nature as a creator by becoming an

entrepreneur and using the internet as a

vessel to do so, or you just want to

read more about this philosophy, check

out the links in the description for all

of that. I have various resources there.

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