Are we trapped in/about to trap ourselves in the matrix?

Are we trapped in/about to trap ourselves in the matrix?
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It probably won’t surprise many of you that this ideology constantly had me thinking back to some of the ideas inherent in Inception. Particularly prominent was the image of those who could no longer dream without being hooked up to the machine, and their resulting obsession with it and a sort of belief that the dream world was a truer reality than our own. Perhaps Inception was written with this idea in mind?
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