It was only a few months ago that you were criticizing the Matrix now you're wanting to live in it…and yet you still sound like you haven't bothered watching it yet.
so why the matrix films and their ripoffs presnt this kind of future as grim and opressive?
You're getting mixed up, in one hand you have a virtual world you can voluntarily enter and manipulate as you see fit…
and in the other you have the Matrix, a virtual prison. If you watched the films you'd know that even in this third version of the Matrix their are "programs", virtual people who secretly guide and police the trapped human population.
For example you could be living in the Matrix right now, do you consider this life to be fulfilling?
The Matrix was never built to entertain humans just to keep them mentally occupied. As the films were made quite some time ago they obviously represent an older setting, one that may seem strange to us now but was normal back then.
if most of humanity would be logged into the matrix 24/7 and it will be the main place where life would take place, the whole empty fantasy wouldn’t be so empty because there is no other alternative.
Well yeah that's because you just imprisoned yourself, wtf
and the whole “human mind cannot accept perfection” puzzles me. how does that work? the only explanation i can come up with is that in the movie-world, the machines would hook-up the humans into the matrix without letting them know about it. so when the brain realizes that this cannot be the real world, it would collapse on itself.
In the original write-up of the fiction the Matrix's purpose wasn't to use humans as batteries but as organic CPU's. Sub-concious ejection of the Matrix caused it damage, wide-scale rejection would cause it to "crash" and kill everyone hooked upto it.
The rejection is subconscious because the timeline runs over about 200 years so everyone who was inside the world during the time of the films would have been born in their, along with their families for generations back.
The collapse of the Matrix due to rejection is simply a fictional mechanic, it can't be explained any further than "it just happens because it does"
so if the humans WOULD know that they are inside an etheral world, the problem would resolve itself.
Not everyone would just willingly accept the fact they are mentally imprisoned and being guided through their lives like slaves. Some do (See Cypher) but most don't.
the gang could jack into the matrix and have superpoweres while inside, all while knowing they are inside the matrix.
Neo was the was only one with powers as far as I can remember. As he is the Prime Program he is given extra-sensory abilities for his task which he developed massively. The other members of his team are just well trained and amped up slightly to make for good viewing.
The other character with powers are "programs" not people.
So yeah in short I enjoy talking about the Matrix and you're confused