Okay. Here's something that's pissing me off. The point of the matrix isn't 'hey wow! how do we know we're not really hooked up to machines and shit like that?' That's totally missing the point, my fellow fuckers. The machines and all that shit is a metaphor for the governments and corporations that are above us and control us in ways that are too complex for most people to try and understand.
I don't really agree with the idea, but they're not saying some airy-fairy maybe thing. They're saying 'this is what you are. a drone.'