Innocent Bystander

I've heard them, those rebels, tell me over and over again that this world isn't real, that it's nothing more than a dream. But... I think that they are wrong. For there are many real things within it. The stories, the songs, the movies, anything worth calling fiction, they are said to not be real. But they are. They are real ideas that someone has thought up. They exist within our minds, just as our minds exist within this world. And those programs. They have to be real too. I've heard those rebels say how one sometimes spits blood in that other world when injured in this. So if the programs are not real, how could they cause something to be damaged? They may not be real humans, but they are real in their own way. And if the matrix is not real, how could these things that are exist within it? How could those rebels who claim to be real enter it? How could they look at it on their black and green screens? Nay, they do not understand their own words.

I've heard them, those rebels, tell me over and over again that this world is a lie, nothing but a false reality. But it is still a reality. And once you have learned the truth, does a lie not cease to be a lie? So this world is not what you though it to be, but is that other world any better? True, you are living free, but you are also living frightened. You are living in worry for you husbands and wives, your sons and daughters, who are striving to "free" others and give them a life just like yours. If you had stayed in this world, if you had stayed here by choice, would you also not be living a free life? Would you not be living a better life? A normal life, such as you had strived for in that other world? So your "real" body would be undergoing other things, but how would that affect your life in this world? It does not seem to have affected anyone, save those rebels, who insist it stop. But was not slavery a thing thought up by the humans, as were the machines? Indeed many claim that it was us humans who destroyed the world, and yet the machines have given us a new one.