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The Most Shocking Fact I’ve Ever Learned
My life has never been the same.
In 1999, I traveled with my Grade 9 class to Ottawa, Canada’s capital. It was my first time in Ottawa, but it’s not the Parliament building or any of the many museums we visited that I remember most distinctly.
When we had some free time, a group of us decided to head to the mall to watch a movie. It looked like a typical action flick, but with a twist.
When it was over, our imaginations were running wild. As we walked back to our hotel from the movie theatre, we excitedly talked about what we had just seen.
That was sooo good!
What do you think happens next?
How do we know we’re not in it right now?!
That last question struck me. It knocked on a door in my mind that I hadn’t known was there. And as it slowly opened over the next decade, I came to realize a profound and shocking truth that changed how I viewed everything.
That movie was The Matrix.
The shocking truth
In The Matrix, the main characters learned that they (and all of humanity) were being deceived. What they thought was the “real” world was a computer simulation created by sentient robots. Each person’s brain was connected directly to a…
