Welcome To the Real World
... Ricketts English-2 23 September 2004 Welcome To The Real World An old Chinese proverb asks, "Am I a man dreaming I am a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I am a man? ... In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is "farmed" to fuel the Matrixs campaign of domination in the "real" world. ... “What is real, how do you define real? ... The Matrix contains the most interesting plot idea ever; that the world is not real.