The Dilemma of Awakening

"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters.The very minds of the people we are trying to save.But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged.And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system,that they will fight to protect it…”

It is a rare mind that is immersed in the Matrix, receiving all the rewards of the system, who will stop to question what they are seeing. Most people are just too lazy or too distracted with making a “living” or raising a family to look for the truth. Once you stop to truly awaken and unplug, everything is there to be examined in a new light that reveals all. When you stumble upon a glaring contradiction, a wrinkle in the fabric of the Matrix, what should you do? Do you smooth it over? Do you cover it up? Do you dig a little deeper to see where the rabbit hole leads? Or do you deny it, knowing full well that the minute you question what you have encountered you will have to face threats against all that you have worked for in your faux existence?