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Maybe it’s time to have a disclaimer section in my blog. The content in this Disclaimer is extracted from a book. Here, my writing style is stated. And you can choose to become the ‘plugged-in’ humans or ‘unplugged-in’ humans. Everything is defined how you respond after reading my blog. Enjoy.

Rule 1: Humans are defined above all by externals.

Be transparent. Make sure your goals are common goals that all others share. Ensure your opinions are not your own but come from other people. This way you may avoid confusing people. By the same token, it is preferable never to say what you mean. Also, try not to mean what you say. Genuineness is considered to be threatening within polite matrix society. Therefore, a functional but rigid and unchanging facade is essential to good relations.

Rule 2: You are what you own.

Humans are collectors. The more objects you can acquire, the higher your status will become in other people’s eyes. Most especially if they’re useless objects. Possessions are extensions of the personality, ergo the more accessories you can gather, the larger and more complex your personality becomes. Above all, black shiny objects, such as sleek designer shades and swishy cell phones, serve to augment individual cool. It is important to remember, however, that these items are not to meant to obscure the personality, but rather to replace it entirely with an effectively shallow facade. With enough accessories in your BMW, who cares if it doesn’t run so good, or how much gas is consumes?

Rule 3: What people say and think about you is all-important.

The primary motivation of all matrix-aligned humans is to be liked. The more people who like you, the more those people like you, the more important you become to them, and so to yourself. Since plugged-in humans don’t like what they don’t understand, it is essential to be straightforward, simple, predictable, and to avoid unusual acts or original thoughts whenever possible. Since plugged-in humans have little or no interest or concern besides themselves, it is important also never to infringe overly on such a person’s ’space’. In conversation, avoid eye contact that lasts for more than a moment, any direct or personal questions should be kept to a minimum, and generally reserved for extreme circumstances, i.e., when it would be impolite not to ask them. Listening is not mandatory. Plugged-in humansdo not as a general rule listen, but rather awaits their turn to speak. Therefore, it is only polite to do the same, and to refrain whenever possible from paying too close attention to the other person’s feelings or needs, since this will only make them self-conscious.

Rule 4: Extreme emotions should be repressed.

Plugged-in people, since their primary concern is to be liked, endeavour to maintain an appearence of mildness, consideration, and civility at all times. Any acts or words that might cause offence must be scrpulously avoided. Plugged-in people are easily offended, for they are extremely sensitive to their own feelings; in fact, this is all they think about. Hence, on must maintain a healthy facade of politeness at all times, unti, that is, one’s own feelings have in some way been affronted. Under such conditions, direct confrontation is to be avoided whenever possible since this would entail emotional engagement with the other, and as such cause discomfort to both parties. Anger should be repressed and rechannelled into more subtle, covert, and petty acts, so that the offending party may never become fully aware of having offended; instead he or she will dimly sense that something is amiss in the relationship, and so be tormented by guilt and uncertainty. Plugged-in people rarely allow themselves to experience strong emotions, such as rage or grief, and if they do, they invariably ensure that its expression is indirect and convenient, for example, with complete strangers or in wildly inappropriate circumstances. This way they can emote without revealing anything or in any way compromising themselves. Indignation, resentment, bitterness, arrogance, self-pity, contempt, and a thinly veiled hostility are the preferred emotional responses of plugged-in people, and the marks of true character within the social matrix.

Rule 5: Plugged-in people always compare themselves to others.

Every individual is special and unique, and as such, more important than everyone else. It is the simple agenda of every separate entity to aggrandize itself in any way possible. The means of this self-aggrandizement centre around comparing oneself to others, to one’s advantage wherever possible. The more one can belittle others and make them feel inferior, the more superior one may thereby become in their eyes, and hence in one’s own. The matrix social arena is based on the interplay of egos, all of which are vying for power over all others. For matrix-aligined humans, all self-esteem revolves around external accomplishment, acquisitions, and the accolades of one’s fellow humans. Existence is by nature competitive. All power, as such, depends upon control and mastery, not over the self but over others. The more power one can steal from others, the more one has for oneself. Conversely, the more empowered others become in relation to oneself, the less power one has over them. This is because egos define themselves through comparison with others and through external factors rather than through any inner sense of value or worth. The ego competes with other egos, knowing that only the best ego will win, and that winner takes it all. As such, the plugged-in human is by nature set against all other humans in a fight for survival, not of the physical but of the ego. Therefore, innate but carefully concealed hostility is the most constant modality of humans functioning within the social matrix.

Rule 6: Within the Matrix, fame is the Holy Grail of all personal aspiration.

The ultimate goal of plugged-in people is threefold: success, wealth, and fame. The rationale behind these goals is single, however. Together they reap the maximum amount of power over other humans. By placing oneself in the highest regard of the greatest number of people, one thereby steals the optimum amount of power from them. Fame is the ultimate goal of all plugged-in people (even if only a handful ever attain it), since it presupposes the other two. Fame ensure wealth and success but takes things to the next level, that of true power. By achieving the adoration and envy of the world simply by being wealthy and successful, one is secure in the knowledge of one’s superiority: millions of people adore one, and yet are secretly despised for it. Hence one’s power over them is complete, and the ego becomes, at long last, supreme, the god of its own world. For most plugged-in humans, however, this is something that can only be enjoyed vicariously.

Rule 7: Plugged-in humans need someone to worship and someone to debase.

In order for the collective’s envy of a given, privileged individual (Keanu Reeves, for example) not to spoil the pleasure they get from adoring him, it is important to fosterand maintain the delusion that, some day, they will attain similar or even greater glory themselves. The nature of the plugged-in human is to worship wat he reviles and revile what he worships. For at base of all his acts is a sense of self-loathing and unworthiness. Plugged-in humans look up to those humans whom they feel inferior to, and take gratification from this act of worship. On the other hand, they look down upon those humans whom they perceive as inferior to them, and likewise find fulfilment in this act of debasement. And all the while they take pride in their belief that ‘all men are created equal’.