The Cave / Matrix

People have always lived thier lives based on thier perception of reality. In both the Allegory of the Cave and The Matrix there are two realities, but which is the more real? For heroes like Neo of the Matrix or Simba from the Lion King, what is real is not of thier choice but rather thier chosen destiny (or thier Dharma). For the Villian however, reality is what makes them happy or content so morally speaking, who is more genuine, the hero or villian? In the Matrix the character Siefer argues that the artificial world of the matrix can be more real than reality, and he chooses to betray everyone to embrace that reality. If "ignorance is bliss", than what is the truth according to the teachers Morpheus and Socrates? Suffering? I believe that the value in truth and knowledge is always subjective and is always filtered through a force of some kind. The bad truth is that Neo and the enlightened prisoner from the cave now know thier reality is not what they thought, but the good truth is that now they have the chance to spread enlightenment or "Moksa" (Neo experienced this when he stopped the barrage of bullits after returning to life in the film). This supports what Plato argued that people must open thier minds to the world beyond what they know to have true wisdom and what Morpheus tried to teach Neo in the Matrix about what is real and what is not. Given that free will can always inhibit enlightenment (the people plugged into the matrix that will fight to defend the artificial world, or the still trapped prisoners in the cave), reality and fantasy are not black and white concepts for the hero or villian. Rather it is the idea that there is something beyond our control or understanding, and that reality is always relative to each person.