I think its time for a new evaluation for the meaning of the matrix, which was 1990s post cold war optimism to the modern internet, just as there are fictitious geopolitical battles in the matrix there exist fictitious "geopolitical" battles on the internet! There are also roles to be fufilled in the matrix, at the end of matrix I theres a homeless person, and throughout there are carpenters, businessmen, airport security and so on and so forth. You see this today there is the soysphere, X,bluesky, rdrama, discord, etc... they all live under the matrix, all fufilling roles someone had yesteryear acting as an artificial flame [1] for the netizens to oscillate through, but we as users of this website have the fortunate reality of breaking that mold, we are one of a kind, a new breed. Ive tried to unplug people, but they are too rigid to be saved....
Would like your thoughts
[1] "This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made. But it was ever and is and shall be: an ever-living fire, being kindled in measures and being extinguished in measures." - Heraclitus
