Cage or Chrysalis?

Here's the original ending of The Matrix before the sequel-friendly re-write. It's particularly poignant since Larry Wachowski came out of the trans closet.


"Hi. It's me. I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I imagine you can also feel me. You won't have to search for me anymore. I'm done running. Done hiding. Whether I'm done fighting, I suppose, is up to you. I believe deep down, we both want this world to change. I believe that the Matrix can remain our cage or it can become our chrysalis, that's what you helped me to understand. That to be truly free, truly free, you cannot change your cage. You have to change yourself. When I used to look out at this world, all I could see was its edges, its boundaries, its leaders and laws. But now, I see another world. A different world where all things are possible. A world of hope. Of peace. I can't tell you how to get there, but I know if you can free your mind, you'll find the way."



All worlds have limits, boundaries and methods of control. The objective isn't to try to move ourselves to a world without such limits and controls because all worlds have them. The objective is to change ourselves. We decide if the world is our cage or our chrysalis.

Architect: "While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably... here."

Neo: "Choice, the problem is choice."


Even *IF* the physical world may be deterministic, the virtual reality of Mind, the environment in which our Will operates within, is not itself entirely deterministic. (We perceive irrationalities, synchronicity for instance).

We have freewill.

Is your form/world your cage, or is it your chrysalis?

Thank you to all my transgendered friends for exemplifying this message...that the Matrix cannot tell you who you are.

And to those not ready to be unplugged, I say...

"Free your Mind".