Institutions and Influences
She doesn’t ever really stop to think about such things as democracy versus monarchy, or which is better, or should there be a combination of the two, or if the term President is better than Emperor is better than Prime Minister is better than King is better than Captain is better than Czar is better than Council. If she did, she’d probably say they were all just different forms of control, different names and titles for one individual or group influencing the lives and choices of another individual or group.
By that logic, she’d have to say that there are dozens of such things in her life, things that influence her decisions, people whose thoughts are taken into account when making such things. The Agents in the Matrix, the Council at Zion, Morpheus on the Nebuchadnezzar, and Neo, who isn’t control but is still as great, if not greater, an influence as all the rest, not because of any Oracle-and she’s certainly a government, by this definition, unto herself, but what she’s for,or part of, or at, or on, Trinity doesn’t think anyone really knows beyond the Oracle herself-or a prophecy or because he’s the One or the Other or just Thomas Anderson who’s too late for work several days and up too late many nights. Just because he completes some part of something that is just for her, or of her, maybe, and makes things right.
And that’s good, really, that she doesn’t think about it. Because if she thought about any of them for too long, Trinity would be forced to admit to herself that she can be influenced, and she can trust the decisions of others, and she can follow orders. But when it comes down to it, none of them, not even Neo, would stop her in the end from doing what she needed to do, what needed to be done.