Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

This is from a conversation on YouTube concerning the movie, The Matrix:

I wrote:

This whole movie at the lowest level is a metaphor for our relationship with God and his system. Of course, the manifest symbolism is that the system is our post-industrial society. Don’t ask me… 🙂


Mymarkis666 wrote:

@aBigHairySpider No it isn’t.



My response:
Catching symbolism depends on your frame of reference. If I call you Duke, then you have no idea the symbolism I’ve employed because you don’t know Duke.

And, some people will stop at their first level of understanding. It’s necessary — if we paid attention to everything then we’d probably never get anything done… or at least those Earthly tasks that support our beer habits.

You may think the Wizard of Oz is about a girl from Kansas who goes to Oz. 🙂

When of course, Wizard of Oz is about the man behind the curtain. He’s just a man… God is too, unseen.


Later, it went on: