Imagine
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Basically read about the allegory of the cave by Plato. The name given in modern times for the cave is the matrix. Every certain number of years the actors must get a completely new script or the people start to get up and walk around the cave messing things up. Kind of like changing the channel. It is rumored that the psychics they employ found that they will not be able to reset us this time. That we will stay awake and awaken more. Still they must try even harder just in case. Or reduce to smaller more concentrated areas of control like smart cities.