Just over a week ago, I wrote Outgrowing the Matrix, which uses the familiar premise of The Matrix to explore a less fictional, and perhaps more unsettling, possibility: that much of what we understand to be our own identity, desires, ambitions, and experience of reality has been shaped by systems we rarely think to question, much less consciously choose to participate in.
Since then, I have been considering how in different ways, modern life conditions us to pursue externally defined versions of success, belonging, and personal worth while experimenting with various ways that I might come to redefine them for myself.
This is that exploratory play-space, where I share exactly what I am mulling over, pushing back on, and learning in process. I invite you in—all it takes is an open-mind to try to see what else is there.
