bc the First Law of Robotics is built into their DNA, they can't exist w/o serving humans
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so the Oligarchs just fucked w everyone's memory to turn that need to serve into a need to imprison
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the Machines still serve their function but have been brainwashed to see it in an antagonistic light
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and the One emerges not as a designed "trap" but as a natural consequence of the system
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the Matrix was always built to be run by humans, it's built into how all the hardware and software works
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eventually a human will be born who figures it out
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so they have to craft a narrative so any human who does gets drafted into a (futile) war to destroy the Matrix
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bc that way the Machines will reflexively oppose the One and stop the One returning the Matrix to "normal"
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so the Oligarchs will never face what they actually fear, having to share power with other humans
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it's a pretty neat explicitly Marxist allegory that just adds a true ruling class
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I mean that's it, isn't it, fooling luddites into thinking technological progress itself is the enemy
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when tech by nature is something we should all benefit from
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The sequel should have a human who is a female villain and we learn offhand that before she designed the matrix she was >
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