Yourself?

Uh-uh, don't think so. He flies etc by playing around with the rules of the system, i.e. like cheating/hacking in a game. And the Matrix isn't a utopia. Just because 99% of the people accept it doesn't make it one. But as one of the essays in The Matrix Philosophies aptly puts it, "When we consider a pre-Heaven existence, we seem to prefer the best real deal to the best Matrix. When thinking about Heaven, we seem to prefer the best Matrix to the best real deal."

posted by k @ 6:26 pm