Sustainche™ needs to talk about revolutions ! Part II

Sustainche™ during the past days carefully and with great sympathy followed the ongoing protests in Greece and Spain (http://www.spanishrevolution.eu).

On Madrid’s ‘Puerta del Sol’ square the scenery already looks very much like on Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, in January and February 2011, with camping sites being pitched and peaceful protesters holding the ground even though this is said to be against law during the regional elections. Calling for ‘Real Democracy Now’, the protests popularly known as M-15 began on May 15, 2011, address Spain’s economic crisis, the political class in general, and corruption. Sustainche needs to recall that Spain has reached a 21-per cent jobless rate, and among the young people until the age of 30 years the unemployment rate doubles to more than 40-per cent. Only recently, even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified a génération précaire. “Bravo, IMF, congratulations, small Polar Bear Sustainche identified the génération précaire – not only in Spain, but all around Europe – already with his two posts in August 2009”, Sustainche nods his head in agreement but without any satisfaction or pleasure.

“Well, it seems that at last we come to the moment of truth”, Sustainche concludes, and while thinking about this sentence, Sustainche is reminded on the ‘Architect’ in the ‘Matrix Reloaded’ movie:

The Architect – Hello, Neo.

Neo – Who are you?

The Architect – I am the Architect. I created the matrix. I’ve been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

Neo – Why am I here?

The Architect – Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.

…

The Architect – Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed, and the anomaly revealed as both beginning, and end. There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the source, and the salvation of Zion. The door to the left leads back to the matrix, to her [Trinity], and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice.

‘Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed, and the anomaly revealed as both beginning, and end.’ “Exactly, this was the sentence that came into my mind while thinking about the current events in Spain and Greece,” Sustainche recognizes. “And, yes indeed, life is about choice”, Sustainche agrees, “and as well as it is ‘hope’ … or as the Architect of the Matrix would say “the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.””

 

To be continued !

 

~ by sustainche on May 21, 2011.