The Matrix Oppression

The humans of the Matrix have an unknown history of conflict with and enslavement by the machines, in the way the lower classes in Berger’s work are cut off from their history. Furthermore, in both of these works the it is essentially important for those in positions of authority to maintain credulity in their underlings when inculcating them by imparting perceptions concerning reality unto them (otherwise problems would arise, not the least of which would be the world of essay-authorship being hit by untold waves of unbound ill-suited sarcasm). This points the analysis towards further parallels that can be seen between these two works in the need for suppression.
In both narratives, it seems the inevitable consequence of the preservation of a system which dominations some, is an ongoing conflict between the oppressor and the oppressed.
This suppressor role is played in The Matrix by the sentient computer programs known as the Agents, most notably Agent Smith. Alex Blazer in “The Matrix trilogy and the revolutionary drive through 'the desert of the real'” notes the association between the order of society and the role of the enforcer of the status quo in relation to The Matrix in writing that, “it would appear that the Matrix corresponds to the Symbolic Order, the language and culture of patriarchal authority that constructs, determines, and codes human existence as if we were simply cogs (or batteries) in a machine. Agent Smith is the representative programmatic enforcer, the superego voice of authority that would punish the nonbelievers who question or challenge the law of the land (or mind).” Along with Blazer’s writing, this role is played in reality—at least reality as Berger perceives it, and everybody knows how dreadfully faulty perception is— by the art historian. As the Matrix’s reality is false, its sensory perception is being emulated and implanted via direct input into a