Matrix Revolutions and philosophy

Perhaps it is too late to blog a movie review for matrix revolutions..but then there is one aspect of the movie which was amazing and hence this blog. I felt that the dialogues in this movie was really awesome. I really liked the ending dialogues of the movie between Agent Smith and Neo. Agent smith beats up neo and when neo tries to get up to fight he rants this dialogue.

Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than just your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why?! Why do you persist!?

Neo: Because I choose to.

I think these two dialogues are very powerful and the movie could not have ended any better without this dialogue. Throughout the trilogy what we see is the consequences of Neo choices, right from choosing the Red Pill in part 1 to fighting every single agents and centinels everything is because Neo chooses to. So I feel that the ending dialogue of the movie just summarizes the whole concept of the philosophy of the matrix in two lines. Also, Existentialism is beautifully brought out in this dialogue basically outlining the power of choice. We are result of the choices we make and we are free to make our own choices and will be facing the consequences of it. Here is my previous post on existensialism.

Exercise

New study finds that exercise is good for your brain...here is the link for the article. So the way to do good math is prolly running a mile rather than eat lot of 'vendaikai' (lady's finger) and sleep at home :) ! I was wrongly guided about vendaikai's when i was a kid, perhaps !!! ;)

So what is your take on this exercise funda after reading this post about studies made in science/medicine

Slowboards

Sometimes i feel that the keyboards are a little too slow, esp when i am typing some code. I wish somebody discovers a techique to bypass this keyboard and let the code appear as we think...
would'nt that be cool?

ok will get back to churning code !!

Irony

He wanders through a land,
with nothing inspring in his journey.
He incessantly looks for motivation,
to make his journey joyous and meaningful.

He reaches a city and meets some people
The people in the city look at the wanderer,
their eyes are filled with admiration for him,
for the journey he has made thusfar.

He hears their adulations about his motivation,
for having made an inspiring journey thusfar.
In masses they throng and want him to speak about motivation,
to make their journey inspiring like his.

The wanderer smiles and passes on without saying a word
for he knows what z he going through..
But people in the city think they get the message and inspiration.

Ashes

Will England win the ashes?

If,
Red Sox did beat the Yankees
Mike Slackenerny did graduate
Bush did win his second term
Rajini's crappy movie can make millions
Microsoft ponders on buying Redhat

England will win the ashes (going by the trend unexpected happenings), what say folks??