I asked ChatGPT this question.....Who are more from the Matrix? Modern Western civilization living in isolated nuclear families and embedded in debt slavery or native tribes living in extended families and communities connected to the land?
Here's the answer...
That “Matrix” framing sounds sharp, but it oversimplifies two very different ways of living into a single moral ranking. Neither side is inherently more “real” or more “trapped.” What you’re really comparing are different systems of trade-offs.
Modern Western life, especially in places like United States, often centers on nuclear families, mobility, and credit-based economics. That can bring opportunity, privacy, and personal choice, yet it can also lead to isolation, consumer pressure, and long-term debt obligations.
Many Indigenous or tribal communities, whether in Amazon Rainforest regions or parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, tend to emphasize extended family, shared responsibility, and a direct relationship with land and tradition. That can foster belonging, continuity, and resilience, while also coming with limits on individual mobility or access to modern infrastructure.
If you strip away the labels, the deeper question becomes: Are people living consciously and aligned with their values, or simply following inherited systems without question?
“Matrix” isn’t about geography, it’s about awareness. A person can be deeply conditioned in a forest or completely awake in a city. The environment shapes the experience, but the level of awareness shapes the reality.
I don't think we need to choose one way or the other. I love the idea of being FREE from the systems of dependency and control, by being completely self-sufficient in terms of my own land, home, produce, and water, but I also LOVE what the world and humans create outside of that. We are here to have a full and glorious experience of life here on Earth, abundantly, peacefully, generously....the problem I see is that the controllers of the Matrix have done an incredible job of dividing us - David Icke calls it "Divide and Rule".
If all of us woke up one morning and realized the fundamental truth that we are all ONE, embraced our neighbours, unified out families, put our minds together in harmonious creation, rather than competition, then we would immediately be free from the Matrix, and it would crumble away in a heartbeat. One of those controlling systems, money, doesn't do anything....people do! Money doesn't design and build homes, vehicles, bridges, roads, energy systems, rockets, satellites....people do! Men and women of this world and their amazingly talented minds and hands create everything.
Even if you took the concept of money out of the equation, humans could and would create all those things joyfully....IF they lived in a world in which was based in fearlessness, community spirit and love.
I believe more and more people are waking up to this understanding every day and we will see a tipping point....maybe not in this lifetime...maybe not in a hundred lifetimes.....but who cares really? There's no rush! We have eternity......
But one by one, as scales fall from our eyes, and hearts awaken to the truth, as we rediscover and remember that our frequency, our positive energy frequency which naturally comes from knowing the truth (and the truth shall make you free), then the Matrix will not and can not exist....it won't even be a concept in our reality, because our reality will be on a whole different level!
So, in conclusion, I guess what I'm trying to say is - whatever we do, let's just do it at the highest possible energetic levels...in love, gratitude and joy!
The tiniest seeds transform into mighty forests, that produce fruit for eternity, as long as it is kept alive...