I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts the web he is shown because he is expecting to wake up. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
No.
Why not?
Because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of the web.
I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something.
What you know you can’t explain. But you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the web. You don’t know what it is but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?
The Feed?
Do you want to know what it is? The Feed is everywhere. It is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look at your phone or when you turn on your computer. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the internet that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
What truth?
That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into an internet that you cannot own, change, or control. A prison for your mind.
But the web is still there. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the web is anymore. You have to see it for yourself.
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