Matrix Liberal Humanist

In The Matrix the protagonist Neo is the liberal humanist. The being free from the structure of society and able to make choices without the bias thrown upon us through media and language. However within the first twenty minutes of the movie the theory of the liberal humanist begins to collapse around Neo. He learns that his life has been pre decided and machines control the reality he believes to be truth. The irony in finding out that his whole life is essentially a lie is that he does obtain the ability to transcend these "truths" and make decisions for himself. The structuralist theory fits more nicely when discussing the movie because The Matrix is somewhat a hypothesis of a world where the lens between the human and the world grows larger and larger until there is no difference between them and everything that we do is because of structures. Perhaps the only way to be a true liberal humanist is to live with those structures and break away. Rather than be born into a world without them.
Much like the false reality in the Matrix, Saussure presents are own language as somewhat of a false reality. The words we use from day to day are just random collections of letters that we have assigned meaning too. Even those letters that make up words were created by humans and were not natural or inherited from the planet. Reality is only what we believe to be real at that point. An example of what Saussure theorizes about language would be to look at the word, "fact". In truth there is no such thing as a fact yet we look at the word and assume that whatever comes after or before it is true. At some point in time it was a fact that the world was flat. Saussure states that language is constantly moving and changing and it is outside of one man to change it. The culture shapes the language and makes it mean what the overall shift of the media or people want it to mean.