This feeling of being defeated by and trapped inside the “machine” and seeing the “truth” is exactly what the “machine” would want you to do. The actual red pill is that there’s no “machine”, there’s only people and shared social constructions held together by our compliance and they’re contingent.
There's no machine, and there's no ladder. However with sufficient people believing it exists and acting like it does, it becomes real in its own way.
> there’s only people and shared social constructions held together by our compliance and they’re contingent
But that's what a "machine" is.
thank you