"Are things better now? For most of us, life is easy. We are fed and pampered, kept healthy and alive. We left our planet with our new owners, and never looked

"Are things better now? For most of us, life is easy. We are fed and pampered, kept healthy and alive. We left our planet with our new owners, and never looked back. Perhaps wild humans still roam there. Disease, conflict, poverty, hunger, waste: these are historical concepts, unknown to us moderns. Does the immortality compensate for utter loss of self-determination? Did the Borg(s) save us from ourselves, or did they break the branch of human history? When they bred the predator out of us, did they raise us up, or condemn us to evolutionary death? It is unknowable." In the Matrix movie there was an interesting moment when Cypher grew tired of all real world struggle and wanted to return into his cocoon, take the blue pill back and to enjoy relative comfort in the illusory world of the Matrix. Self-determination, obviously, didn't work for him.