Why Andrew Tate & Logan Paul Blame "The Matrix" 

Andrew Tate and Logan paul complaining The Matrix has them, when they totally sold-out humanity for a Steak Dinner in a fancy Restaurant 🥩

It's strange how the Matrix actually exclusively targets fraudsters and human traffickers. Is Matrix actually based that way?

Andrew Tate gets arrested: "It's the Matrix." Andrew Tate doesn't need to be held in a cell anymore: "See! He's innocent."

So so true. Logan & Tate think they are Neo in this story, when all along they've been the lying, deceiving "burn you piece of shit!" Cypher.

Imagine watching the Matrix and thinking, "I must liberate myself by trash talking women and being a d-bag influencer!"

The real world in the Matrix is a blasted wasteland. People aren't escaping the Matrix to live a life of luxury. They're escaping it to live in the real world even though it's filled with hardship because they believe the harsh reality is better than a comfortable lie.

I find the right taking the term "being red-pilled" hilarious, since in the 90's when one thought of a 'red pill' before the matrix came out it was estrogen.

Blaming "the Matrix" comes from the exact same place as the idea of being "Red-Pilled" They are taking Morpheus' iconic monologue wildly out of context: "You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about? … Do you want to know what it is?… The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. … That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind. … Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. … This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more. … Follow me."

Just by reading the title: I think “men lacking wisdom being averse to take responsibility or accountability” sums it up

Mentioning pulp fiction, dark souls, and twin peaks the return all in one breath really made me feel like I found my tribe.

Also, the matrix metaphor is used by influencers who are part of the mma/boxing/combat world, or at least want to be, and neo is this amazing fighter who punches his way to greatness and "beats up" the matrix, like the influencers did (real or imagined). Might be that simple.

I’m so glad I found this channel; I thought Jared had just stopped being online. I was obsessed every week trying to guess what movie the wisecrack crew would do for show me the meaning. That podcast changed my view on watching films. To this day I still go back to listen to some of my favorite episodes like the “audition” one and “the dark knight”. I can say Nobady knows how to give a proper summary like you do; when you were not on the episode it was really hard for me to get hyped when someone else would do it. Fanboy aside, thanks for all the awesome content. 😊

The so-called "Tate lifestyle" sounds like the most miserable kind of existence imaginable. No real connections, no real personal intimacy or honest recognition of who you are (instead of what you show people you have), a constant need to reassure everyone you're truly fulfilled when you're really just struggling with the emptiness of your own existence and a lack of purpose or any individual ambition which isn't relative to others' perception of you. A life lived with yourself alone as the centre seems like a tremendously lonely life.

The metaphors surround the veil actually being the piece or art are brilliant.

The only thing close to being called "The Matrix" now days, would be how the billionaires continuously use their funds to finance the research institutes and media that they benefit from. It's funny to think that Tate could never live this type of lifestyle without the matrix, and he's one of the greatest contributors to it.

A fan of Twin Peaks the Return? Jared, you continue to be a man of class and taste.

Tate, Paul, Ross, etc all blame the Matrix because they know they are criminals and still refuse to take accountability for their actions.

Awesome video Jared! Thought provoking and insightful as always. Reminds me of this quote: “We want to complexify our lives. We don't have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled.Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure and our desires fulfilled we would look at ourselves and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing can fill it.

I don’t know much about Tate or Paul but your writing just keeps getting better. Fives stars would watch again.

This is the best video I watched on RU-vid in 2023 and absolutely lead me down an insane rabbit hole. Thank you for this.

When a 15 year old kid says they want to "escape the matrix", I don't think it's because they're incapable of taking responsibility and need a scapegoat. It's because they know that some form of authority is keeping them from achieving "freedom". They just don't have the education and knowledge to truly understand what's happening.

Don't believe the Matrix, believe and live in my Matrix, and in the process make me fabulously rich and powerful. - Andrew Tate

One must appreciate Jared when he ends video with deep monolog about control by system which adapts meta commentary movie about itself to control even better, with "be sure to subscribe". 'Said me as I wrote this comment on biggest social data farm'

"The Matrix is the kind of movie it would make about itself" just blew my mind all over again.

Their truest enemies are self denial.

“That seeking liberation through a medium that is itself apart of the entrapment could only ever produce a brand of liberation where quote “peeling back the veil of ideology” becomes the hottest new design of a line of veils.” Ah so potent and so relevant in so many ways to the current culture. Loved this video ur brilliant

This channel is thought provoking as always, cheers 👍

Really enjoyed this one, love the attention to detail on obscure topics

I‘m not commenting often on Videos but this video was so incredibly interesting. Thank you very much.

"the matrix is attacking, my compound is surrounded by its agents" "andrew those are FBI agents"

All these people blaming the matrix are late. I've been blaming matrices since college but I've since learned to go with the tensorflow. I'm the kernel Sanders apotheosis of an enigma (or something. sorry, lost the analogy half way through).

love your philosophical takes and references, great as always.

Posting this comment to promote Jared in the Algorithms. Give this man some money!

“Most people don’t like me and consider me to be a pos…must be the matrix 🤓”

The "invitation to wonder" is why I still shoot film and wet plate specifically. I'm always shocked when it works.

Imagine thinking that paying women to be around you is better than being loved.

First time I'm hearing about Objet petit a, and my jaw dropped because I thought about this many times though my life, but never was able to properly explain it. Thanks a lot for the reference, I need to read more about it. Also I loved the bit about the case in Pulp Fiction and the lore of Dark Souls, this was brilliant little detail which explain so much about my entertainment tastes

I don't feel sorry for the creators of the Matrix, they made two other films where they could have broken it down and explained it better but they chose money.

I'm gonna guess it's because they don't take responsibility for their actions.

I believe the accusers of Russel brand. The fact he dove straight into “it’s the matrix” instead of “ I didn’t do it” was a dead giveaway.

Great essay as usual, Jared. You missed the 3rd step, though. If we are characterized by unfillfilable desire, and we create narratives to cope with that, then there is a 3rd step: building narratives for others to control them. In that sense, "the matrix" is real insofar as mass media is coherent and/or targeted. The incentives line up: people are motivated to tell the narrative that is most popular, which has highest utility, not the one that is truest, and promulgating this narrative has an economic and a political incentive. Also, I don't think you are giving enough attention to the relationship between "the matrix" and "cancel culture" in relation to the red pill gang - the dog piles on the internet that occur when someone says something are probably quite the experience, and it may feel like the whole world is against you. The amount of hate directed at you rises to a fever pitch, for a short while, and I don't think many humans have really experienced this like they have. They aren't very bright, or well-read, or good people, so they groped for the best metaphor they could to explain how that made them feel, and came up with "the matrix".

The Matrix was also the substitution of actual knowledge for people who watched it in the 90s. It formed large groups of people who didn't dissect it in search for further philosophical ideas, but instead was a thing in of itself, a concept that became truth for them rather than part of a philosophical conversation. That truth is now a reality for them because these people have grown up into power, either as CEOs or influencers and they influence others using this pseudo-intellectualism of taking Matrix directly for what it is and nothing more. This is part of how the pseudo-intellectual movements of the world have grown. They place people like Peterson and Shapiro and even Joe Rogan on pedestals and through building group think through acknowledging each other listening to these people, they form an illusion of being educated, of having actual knowledge, while they're only as knowledgeable as what a cult would be in comparison, listening to cult leaders and agreeing with them on the basis of the illusion of wisdom. It's this that forms the anti-intellectual mentality that's eroding the world as these people try to just silence real knowledgeable experts in a sea of misinformation, desinformation and plain loudness so that, in their brainwashed mind, their ideology and conviction will win and save the world.

i wouldn't compare tate to logan. Logan is a bigger pos than most ppl think

Back when I used to play Super Mario 64 in the 90s, I used to look at the skyboxes and the lack of attention to detail on each level and think, " Wow, I wonder what's out there. This is all so abstract. What does it all mean?" My mind would explode with possibilities. It was like some divine acid trip. I'd project myself onto the game and explore my mind and the mysteries of the universe. And then 15 years later when I encountered my 17th game breaking bug in an immensely unsatisfying Ubisoft formula open world game, the magic was kind of broken. I stopped caring. Now all I see is money hungry publishers. But if I'm projecting myself onto these newer modern games just like the old days, what does that say about me?

Oh no. These poor millionaires, what a shame for them 🤦

Never trust anyone who reduces all of life’s problems to one singular group, person, force or system.

I love the line from the show "the Curse", where they encounter the same person twice by happenstance and the father's half-joking response is "the Matrix is getting lazy". I would love to see "the curse" covered on this channel

Red pill is so funny to me. Escape the matrix just do Cypher straight away. Ignorance is bliss. Wanting being rich and famous. Literally back to matrix.

I feel like there's a difference between "never being satisfied, because that is how we are biologically designed" and the multi million dollar life styles the RU-vid Influencers are selling and being judged for.

Sending gratitude from a Daoist Monastery near Seattle (USA)! May we all abandon desire and still the mind.

Matrix 4 was excellent. (Only that particular casting situation was an issue). I interpreted it as a response to that Baudrillard quote about the matrix being a movie within the matrix. I found it interesting to see Wachowski keep the conversation going with a (no longer with us) philosopher that she clearly reveres. However, it turns out that the Matrix 4 is about the true story of warner brothers threatening to make a new Matrix without the artist and about the artist taking back the meaning of their work. Beautiful.

I’m a radical freethinker, which is why I use somebody else’s idea to avoid accountability! FREETHINKER, BABY! I have one thing Andrew Tate doesn’t have: The ability to enunciate a “T” consonant sound. But, that’s how I was coded by … ThE MaTrIx.

Interesting perspective -- Thank you for sharing this! Best wishes.

I would like to see Jared give analysis of certain film with the ideas of Jean Piaget

Awesome videos. Need to check out those resources and philosophers you recommended

Zen and the Art of Lacanian Motorcycle Analysis.

He's pro-capitalism, yet says he's against the "matrix" lol

Although many seek to leave Plato's cave in earnest, there's always someone there to tell you there's a secret way out that only they know. The Matrix creators say it's one way, wealthy internet influencer says it's the opposite direction, but both are ultimately selling the same thing, the illusion of escape. In actual reality, there is no escape. We're driven toward a goal we cannot possibly ever really achieve.

Thanks for the vid! I was just thinking about the illusive, self defeating, futile nature of desire this morning and then I fortunately just stumbled upon this gem of a video that outlined my thoughts and more even better. Thank you!

Bravo! Omg. Jared. So good. Idk what else to say! Perfect. Thank you

Great video, the veil of the veil has been lifted. Is there just another veil underneath?

dude this incredible. instant sub. bravo!

That give new meaning to "for the birds"

It's just another way of saying "the system" or referring to some kind of villainous overlords/world order. In my opinion, it's not really something that merits discussion. The more and more I pay attention to modern political and social discourse, the more I realize that most ideas aren't new, so much as that new generations are simply discovering them for the first time and think they are novel/worthy of presenting (in their own way, of course) or are simply rebranding them so as to seem like they are the source of these ideas, or at the very least, the ones who espouse them onto said new generation. It's a little boring if I'm being honest.

So The Matrix is the Dark Souls of Greek Philosophy, got it!

The objet petit a of watching philosophy videos on youtube in search of that "aha" moment

Jared, you were, are, and will always be the voice of reason and philosophy for those who find interest in it through your voice.

You make great videos. Thank you 🙏🏾

because red piller would buy any "rich" persona words, same as people who like to watch news propagandas and religion leaders.

This is well timed because I literally just watched Piers Morgan interview Tate

Fucking Matrix.. I've rewatched Scott Pilgrim today (brilliant just as I remembered it) and now absolutely randomly I'm seeing footage from it in your video. The Matrix is real.

They just can’t accept accountability

"Wanting is better than having"

The pop culture meme of the Matrix has an academic counterpart in postmodern power-matrices on the left. One sells "perpetual desire" and the other sells "perpetual revolution"

Interesting that a fantasy must include an obstacle to its realization.

Glad you’re going back to your roots Jared. Philosophy. That was the reason why I started watching your old channel but stopped watching after it diverted to more mainstream audience that lost its curiosity with philosophy.

That steak in The Matrix was way too rare.

The film does come off as "accidentally Fashy" these days. I still love the late-90s cringe aesthetic of Rob Zombie music videos, not to mention all the damn rain! Was it always so wet?

The irony about the matrix is Neo never really escaped it

The redpill ideology is Soo cringe. I cant even with these people. They talk about the matrix without even fully understanding the complexity of its concept

Long story short: Idiots who didn't understand the point of the movie are using it to evade responsibility. In reality, the film is written by two trans siblings about a white guy that learns about and combats a seemingly inescapable system of oppression with the help of a black man and woman who represent an overt Jesus / holy trinity metaphor about sacrificing yourself for a cause much greater than you.

Its easier than taking accountability

I always called it Chasing the Tarnished Grail. If you can just get to/have/be that ONE thing, you win! Until you get it, and dont. And we do know that about ourselves, part of the allure to latch on to dreams beyond our means: we will never find out that Grail is Tarnished too, and can milk that dream.

I'm just gonna start calling all the Red Pill 3-heads "Cypher".

always such an insightful video. Thank you

Great analysis

Please please please, Make video about Sean Stricklands version of "The Matrix" in comparison to this version. He recently did an Interview where he refers to the matrix as the lie of the American dream and aspirational society, It's so fascinating seeing a counter figure for masculinity using the same analogy in a totally different way. The interview is : Sean Strickland goes OFF THE RAILS! Colby Covington, his last fight & UFC 297 | ESPN MMA, his thoughts on it begin around the 7:30 mark. However the whole interview is very interesting, I can't help but find him to be a kin to a living 'Joker' character. Chaotic , volatile and dangerously radical. Anyway love your work Jared, that's why I'm bringing this to you. Philosophy of Sean Strickland is an untapped gem.

Great video. My interpretation of the Matrix is ironically Anti-Lacanian: Deleuze and Guattari's Desiring-Production. Desire not for an always unattainable object, but a desire that is always attained because it has no object. It's also cyclical because it is self referential. Smith says the first Matrix was a paradise that humanity rejected- Because we can only conceive of desire as a lack. That is what needs to be overcome. Matrix Resurrections confirms this at the end where Neo and Trinity abandon the notion of transcendant liberation and embrace the Matrix as the playground for thier desire.

Andrew Tate looks like he’s melting.

Absolute nail on the head 👌🏾

"Wisecrack" Jared is back!

I have never heard of objet petit a before, but the explanation harkens to something I'm much more familiar with: Buddhist philosophy. The idea that desire is forever unattainable is part of the doctrine of _anicca,_ "impermanence." The fulfillment and joy of grasping what you desire is impermanent; the object of desire is impermanent; the reason of your desire is impermanent; what you desire is impermanent. Even your thoughts and mindsets are impermanent, in that what you desire right now is never quite the same thing you desire a few minutes ago. Failing to realize the impermanence of all things is one of the factors that contributes to the 3 klesas ("afflictions"/"poison"): aversion, attachment, and ignorance (i.e., delusion). This matrix thing Tate and his ilk latched on seems brimming with all 3 of those.

Isn’t the same things presented here can be applied to all conspiracies and more recently the explosion of conspiracy theories

GENIUS

Thanks for making this, if only subverting the meaning of the matrix was Tate's worst crime

Do you post Do you post video anywhere else?

I still love The Matrix, if just Switch had been manifested as a man when in the matrix, that would have been so cool.

The matrix has taken the comment section

Like it or not we are in a constant psychological battle. I think this is what these types of statements speak to more than anything else.

I would like to hear your take on the graphic novel sequel to fight club. It is a very meta almost apology for bringing Tyler Durden into the world.