Edited sentence: In a way, we are (and will continue to in the foreseeable future) living just like Neo was before being rescued, metaphorically speaking: as powerless sources of energy to a larger, inhuman system (incidentally, created by the very human race which is now enslaved).It should be noted, however, that the whole Matrix metaphor, which points to the enslavement of humanity, and initially could have been perceived by some as a profound criticism to contemporary western society, was eventually digested by the system as a whole, and ended up as just another distraction to any real critic view of the world in which we are all inserted