Thanks to the triumph of the human will and several baffling plot contrivances, Neo sacrifices himself and convinces the machines who are enslaving humanity to stop enslaving humanity quite so much.
Over a beautiful sunset, the machines send their Colonel Sanders avatar to announce that any humans who want to be freed from the matrix will be allowed to do so. Thanks, Neo!
But wait!!
Hey, remember in the first movie where they said they don't pull adults out of the matrix? You know, because finding out that every experience they ever had was false and that the real world is a frozen wasteland destroys their mind?
Well, in this new world, the whole, "All of society, history and culture is a computer generated hoax" thing isn't going to stay a secret for long. How do you think society would react to finding that out? How do you think the major religions would react?
Why would anyone get up to go to work after that ("Build a house? Why can't the matrix just freaking generate one")? How do you think starving third-world nations would regard their machine masters, knowing that their misery is purely the invention of the machines, and that the matrix could in fact have rained food down from the sky any time it wanted, but just chose not to?
The world would descend into utter chaos. Luckily, the people can escape the madness any time they want by exiting the matrix!
Oh, wait, they can't. The one city where people can live has been devastated by the robot attack, and there is nothing close to enough housing, food, clothing, fresh water, etc to accommodate even a small country.
Fuck you, Neo!
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well.. yeah.. I guess... but what if you carry the metaphore of Neo as a Christ figure a little farther. What if the Rapture is actually people choosing to leave the matrix, so from the point of view of those within the matrix, it looks like they all got beamed up or just blipped out of existence--when really they were delivered to... huh, heaven? Well, that part of it doesn't quite jive, but I was on a role there! :P
I would akin people chossing to leave the matrix as the alagory of the cave. Some can handle it, some can't. I think really, that civilization all over would be completely screwed. People would demand the matrix to just generate stuff, whether they needed it or not. People may actually go back to the Matrix knowing that they could get whatever they wanted from the machines and the machines would still get to use people as an energy source.
The Matrix would still exist because of the greed of it's occupants. Sure, I think a small band of people would choose to stay in the real world, similar to the amish, while the rest of humanity relish in wanton excesses provided by the machines.
well, that makes sense. So the question then becomes, which one would you be?
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