Hey Killah, I agree with you in so many ways brother. I agree with others who've posted here to a certain point as well.
The initial fault in humanity (given our current and recently past situations), is fear. You can psyhco analize it all you want to pin point it but in general, fear. Fear of the inkown, fear of change etc. I do not agree that we see ourselves as superiors to the Machines though my friend. I see each and every human both male and female as a God to them. I know that still sounds like superiority but that is not what I mean. I mean God as in creator and therefore (believe it or not), more knowledgeable. We know and feel more than they do even at this point in our existence together. It is this we must teach them, however possible. I still see them as children because of all they could learn from us. The things they didn't compute in light of our haste to destroy them and us if necessary. They did what they did because we created them to take care of us, to serve us. In this they have. . .and given the circumstances they did a wonderful job. We are still here and so are they. As far as our unpredictability goes, put an animal in a cage and watch it fight for freedom. When the animal sees that there is no escape and if it "behaves" it will be fed and taken care of, it does so. To survive. Give that animal one chance to regain it's former life and it's a fifty-fifty chance that it could go either way.
We need to work together Killah, like you said, we need to start sharing. Humanity needs to show the Machines that there are little basic differences between us and them. We both cling to life. Survival. The Machines knew they needed a new food source and found all they would need in us. They also knew they would need to feed us in turn in order for both species (if you will), to survive. They were created to protect and serve us and they remain dong that to this day. We need to show them love and understanding and that war and resistance is not all our race is about. We need to atone for our past with them and they need to learn forgiveness for we knew not what we did.
I have a problem with nearly every post in this thread though folks. Everyone mentioned Humanity and the Machines. Nobody seemed to mention the programs that now live and thrive in the Matrix. The Oracle being one of those programs. Even if Humanity were able to reclaim the surface and unite in life for the future with the Machines the Matrix must continue to exist regardless. These programs have no physical body as we or the Machines have. Could they aquire one? Sure, I imagine they could. At least some of them. However should they have to leave all they know just because Humanity and the Machines say so? No. Man and Machine would be making the same mistake all over again. What we need to teach the Machines is also what we need to teach the programs/Exiles in the Matrix as well. Together. All three beings must work together for a future. Without us, the Machines will eventually die. . .for lack of a beeter word. If we go, they go. If they go, the Matrix goes and everything in it. The Machines never destroyed Humanity, they preserved it.
We must love them all as a father and mother love their children and they must learn to love us and forgive us.
P.S. I'm drunk. Night night all.
