I suppose I shouldn't tell you all about Mother Culture and the job she does on all of us without telling you how to extract yourself from her. How to 'wake up' from the Matrix, so to speak.
But the truth is is that I'm not sure how to do it. There is no 'red pill', no weird little chair with scary hookups. The only thing you can do to erradicate Mother Culture is to learn to discern the sound of her voice in your ear. Remember, she's not consumerism, she's not trends or a common religion, but she has aspects of all of them. It doesn't matter if you're pro-life, pro-Nike, pro-vegan, pro-jesus, or pro-pagan; Mother Culture has a hold on you.
The other thing that 'The Matrix' has taught us about Mother Culture is that no matter how good it sounds to know the truth, sometimes you decide that you really didn't want to know. Like Cypher said 'Ignorance is bliss'. Sometimes being part of the matrix, part of Mother Culture's ruse is better than extracting yourself and being alienated from everyone. In 'The Matrix', this alienation is literal. The members of the restisance were literally alienated from most of the human race. When we speak in terms of Mother Culture, this alienation is very much in mind alone. Once you begin to wake up from Mother Culture's spell, you begin to notice the way the world is ridiculously run; how oblivious everyone is as to what's really going on. And if you suffer silently, you will be alienated. If you tell people about it, you'll most likely be alienated in a different way. Whether or not you want to wake up is your choice.
