Copyright ©2017, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1938-6.ch007 Chapter 7 163 The Risk, the Real, and the Impossibility of Life: Examining the Matrix ABSTRACT The discourse of the Matrix not only wakes up philosophy from the slumber they are, but relects the rise of fears which are proper of a culture, that manipulates anxieties to ix policies otherwise would be rejected. Basically, Neo is subject to an ethical dilemma which means that we are free to make the decision to live in a fake without sufering or in “the real of the dessert” as Morpheus put it. At this extent, if technology is used to protect humankind, Matrix evinces under some circumstances, it can oppress human beings when they renounce to their “free-will”. This chapter not only explored the limitations of the society of risks within liberal thought but taking into consideration the role of authenticity serves ideologically to legitimate sufering. Indeed, accepting to live as Neo did, may lead to oppression or liberation. Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje University of Palermo, Argentina