From a psychological point of views - as odd as it might sound - ‘trying’ or ‘striving’ is the same thing as pretending. ‘Trying’ is the same thing as pretending because we're pretending that we actually stand a chance of...
Our consciousness is owned by the Matrix - it gets caught up in the Matrix, absorbed by the Matrix, subsumed and exploited by the Matrix on a full-time basis. This is ‘the established order of things’ - it's so established...