if you are trying to
get that job, girlfriend/wife, house, car, that condo, travel, pay your taxes, go to church,give ang pow to Jesus, fine dining, attend a symphony orchestra, iphone, shopping, convert pple to christianity, pray to buddha, go to nightspots, disco, smoking, drink beer, take estasy pill, read shit times, ask ur friend come down drink kopi and boast how much you make in the recent suckers's rally , vote pap,etc
then u are IN the matrix of social paradigm
do u take the blue pill and stay ignorant
or take the red pill and be free and see how deep the rabbit hole go
If you are not going to do any of the above, what are you going to do with your life then? Become a monk? Monk pray to Buddha so they are still in the Matrix right? In fact becoming a monk is a desperate attempt to get out of the human relm (or the Matrix), something which they believe in but nobody has proven that its true.
The only way I can think of (getting out of the Matrix) is Death. Nobody knows what happens after death, every religion has their own "theory" of life after death but none has been proven correct. So I would rather see Death as the end of consciousness, the only way out of the Matrix, because Matrix is nothing more than consciousness. Animals don't realise they are in the Matrix simply because they don't have that level of human consciousness.
You have been brought to this world (not by choice) but by people (your parents) who are ignorant of the Matrix, choose simply to ignore it or thought you stand a better chance (than them) of surviving it.
So you are in the Matrix now. You are in such a plight. What are you going to do about it then?
In fact you do have a choice to get out of the Matrix, that is to choose Death. Death takes more than courage. Your consciousness has to die first before the body, and that's the difficult part because your consciousness is attached to the Matrix.
The Matrix is just your consciousness. Something that cannot seen, touch, seems real but its afterall just an illusion. You have thoughts/emaotions but when you slice open your brain, there's nothing there. So it altermately depends how you view it what are you going to do about it. Its very much like those "illusion picture" that we have seen before, for example the picture that looks like an old/ugly women and beautiful lady, some see the old woman, some will see the beautiful lady.
When you have a collection of people coming together to form a society, you will have collective consciousness - the matrix of social paradigm. There will be rules set up bt people who wants you to be in the same paradigm so that they can control you, or "natural laws" that have been created by natural at the begining of time - go against it at your own peril.
So which Matrix do you conform to? What are you going to do about it while your consciousness is still switch on?
Be an observer to the Matrix. See through it and do not be attached to it. Be in terms with it, not try to escape it as the only way out is Death. We are going to be out of the Matrix someday so what's they hurry and why try?