Was Matrix a profound joke by The Wachowskis’?

I hope every one has seen Matrix  and remember Agent Smith. The chief antagonist in the Matrix trilogy. If you haven’t watched the movie, then be warned. There are spoilers ahead.

The plot was very complicated. I had to watch all 3 movies quite a few times to understand what the Wachowski brothers (though they are sisters now, they were brothers when they made the movie) wanted to convey. Set in a distant future, the Machines achieve complete AI and take over the world, humans for some reason send some chemical explosives to block out the sun(because the machines run on solar energy), the machines are more smarter than the humans expect, they learn to harvest the energy from human body. Humans are no longer born, they are grown. They are in a state of sleep their entire duration plugged into machines. The human minds are shown a false reality called Matrix where everyone is in a belief that life is going on as usual. Some people escape and form a rebel army to fight the machines and free humanity. There is this concept of Karma brought in, mental prjections where humans can do any thing they believe when inside The Matrix, the half rock half opera like recitation of the sanskirt Mantra Asatoma Sadgamaya to justify this complex narrative etc etc.

Long story short, Machines turn humans into batteries

It was 4th May 2017, when I was watching a rerun of The Matrix revolutions for the umpteenth time suddenly my head started revolving, the gods said ‘May the 4th be with you’ and I had my Eureka moment. No, I did not run naked on to the street screaming Eureka!. I was actually slumped on the living room couch in my pyjamas.

Call it a nonsense notion but The Wachowski’s actually plagiarised the story from a couple of very well known books and added some Machines, cool graphics and a love story to them and presented it as their original work. The world believed them.It also relates the story of medieval and modern human civilisation. You don’t believe me?

I say that an Agent is a religion, Agent Smith is an Abrahamic religion. The Matrix is the world as we see it. The religious leaders with the backing of politicians and media show us a world we want to see. Zion is the actual world, a world only an Atheist can see. 

Agent Smith’s sole purpose of existence is to convert all others to himself. This part is a blatant copy of ideas copied from the 2 most printed books in human History. Zion and the rebel army are the Atheists of the world. Now the original content. The only way to destroy Agent Smith was that Neo let Agent Smith change the last unique program in the Matrix (himself) also into Agent Smith. Now that Agent Smith’s purpose of existence is full filled, he gets destroyed. Cool. Right?

The ultimate and ingenious solution. The fire extinguishes when the fuel is exhausted. If you still can’t see the connection, then I’m out of my depth. Stop reading now.

I imagine this analogy would have left the likes of Richard Dawkins, Rick Grevais and Bill Maher spell bound and may be Christopher Hitchens & George Carlin would have turned over in their respective graves. 
Now lets try to see if its feasible in real world. Unfortunately the answer is NO. Here’s why. Unlike Matrix revolutions, during the in-numerous Earth’s revolutions around the Sun,  a lot of Agents were born. There are uncountable number of small and medium level agents who go about their job with out creating any scene and always make sure they are unnoticed. There are fake agents like Mormons and Scientologists. There are also some who are called agents by other agents but aren’t agents in reality. There are few high profile agents but only couple of them are like Agent Smith. Who act like a Virus. Definition of a virus is something that replicates by attaching to a host and then killing it. In the Matrix, agent Smith calls Humans a Virus that infected the Earth. Exhausting all resources of a region, multiplying and then moving on to a place with more resources, Humans are the disease and he is the cure. I agree with the first part, but he is definitely not the cure. But In real world the agents are virus that can infect another virus. Humans are not aware of this fact and are duped into thinking the that the agent is always correct.

In early days these agents were unaware of each others existence. So everything was good. Then the connections were established and the path was laid for everything to go haywire. In Matrix the primary conflict was between Matrix and Zion. But in real world there is a civil war in Matrix and also between Matrix and Zion. The saying ‘Foe of the Foe is a friend’ is categorically applied by the Matrix, when they form a nexus to suppress any Zion uprisings. This makes the Wachowskis’ solution impractical. 

So what do we do?  Praying to your own agent is clearly not working, its been tried, tested and failed. Changing Agents isn’t going that good as well. Not having an Agent is not working as well. In India not having an agent will put you under default Agency. Debates did not work out well for Zion. They were burnt at stake in medieval period and are called disruptive and insulted in present age. 

You might be wondering which agency I belong to, or if I’m another Agent with a hidden agenda. I was born in India, so was signed up under the default Agent. I’m still in the Matrix trying to find answers and if there is a way out, waiting for my red pill.