the backstory of the Matrix is a lie although the Architect's description of how it works now is mostly accurate
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the Machines do indeed follow the First Law of Robotics and were designed to serve humans
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however the War happened it wasn't started by the Machines rebelling, it was a war among humans
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and of the original Machine-run utopia breaking down bc the Machines couldn't deal w conflicting orders from warring masters
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so now there's a few former Silicon Valley billionaires who rule everyone as secret gods
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but the whole basis of the Matrix was to serve humans and all the hardware was built on that
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so Neo's powers are just him reattaining the user permissions humans are "supposed" to have
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including in the real world - the implants were originally designed to control Machines
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Zion is just a remnant of how human admins would step out into the real world to maintain the Matrix from the outside
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using their implants to radio control the Sentinels
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the Oligarchs live in their own Zion that's a paradise and they can pop into the Matrix and edit things at will
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
the continuing existence of the "War" is their way of keeping the Machines pacified and the other humans distracted
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OMG Ineed to tell my colleague Dana Cloud about this since she published an enraged essay about the sequels not being Marxist
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