Okay - let's think about this the best way we think about anything: Fannishly.
Remember in The Matrix when Morpheous offers Neo the different pills - one is knowledge and the other is basically ignorance with the promise of no change in his existence?
Now we know that people not born in the Matrix were not given a choice about what reality to exist in - right? You, you were born in Zion, my sweet. You are here because you have to be here - you cannot exist outside of Zion, you would wither and die.
As such it is hard to understand the appeal of the Matrix - you live in Zion - you know what is real and what is true and what is right and you cannot imagine trading that for a projected reality where your body is being consumed as fuel.
BUT -- say you came from the Matrix and entered Zion and suddenly -- nothing was ever real. You and your life are a lie and you are in constant danger with very little comfort. Is it any wonder that a lot of people would rather go back into the Matrix where they are a slave to the system -- but it is a predictible system.
It will hard for you - a child of Zion - to understand this mentality. But we have to figure it out otherwise the franchise will fall into 2 really crappy sequels and Liz will be left watching the last one screaming at Keanu: "WTF??!! Give me back my money, Bitch!"
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Remember in The Matrix when Morpheous offers Neo the different pills - one is knowledge and the other is basically ignorance with the promise of no change in his existence?
Now we know that people not born in the Matrix were not given a choice about what reality to exist in - right? You, you were born in Zion, my sweet. You are here because you have to be here - you cannot exist outside of Zion, you would wither and die.
As such it is hard to understand the appeal of the Matrix - you live in Zion - you know what is real and what is true and what is right and you cannot imagine trading that for a projected reality where your body is being consumed as fuel.
BUT -- say you came from the Matrix and entered Zion and suddenly -- nothing was ever real. You and your life are a lie and you are in constant danger with very little comfort. Is it any wonder that a lot of people would rather go back into the Matrix where they are a slave to the system -- but it is a predictible system.
It will hard for you - a child of Zion - to understand this mentality. But we have to figure it out otherwise the franchise will fall into 2 really crappy sequels and Liz will be left watching the last one screaming at Keanu: "WTF??!! Give me back my money, Bitch!"