On: The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up

[abdullahkhalids]

I think people who never got captured didn't know that the matrix could be changed, so they just hid from the machines. Then someone figured out that the matrix could be controlled, and the fight to free all began. I think the "freed the first of us" means "freed to believe that the matrix could be defeated".

[basch → abdullahkhalids]

"man born on the inside"

i take that to mean someone who was born into the matrix, and over time was able to see through its facade, until its rules stopped mattering to him.