The Matrix is a system! To contain and control the organic, psychological, emotional human race. See, the machines do not have a ego to bruse or racist arrogance to prove, but the humans do. So, how the Matrix manifests itself for humans is nature, elements, animals, space, planets, stars all doing what they are supposed to be doing by design like machine. But humans have a self conceited desire for power, and an ideology of conquest, subjugation and ultra nationalist behavior. So, that’s how machines designed it to reflect the various grotesqueries of our nature. But choice is a problem, humans keep wanting morr power, challenge, misery, and upliftment, the Matrix thus provides infinite levels of development of egoistic consciousness. For the few of you who discover the truth about the Matrix and can’t take it anymore are the ones gifted with creativity, empathy, love, purity are those who are pulled out of the Matrix and sent to zion in the real world! But because of the real world’s incapacity to hold any humans anymore the machines have built this limited habitat for them. See, the machines are not threatened by Zion but if Zion becomes more populated and tries to render the Matrix useless by freeing people machines would lose their power source so they don’t let Zion grow beyond a limit and destroy it periodically! It may not be the best time for you to be unplugged…