I mean, he didn’t really have either of those things.
His boss at the office was tearing him a new asshole over being a few minutes late, and he definitely wouldn’t have gone to the club with those people he sold the virus to if he didn’t get that cryptic “follow the white rabbit” message.
Of course, the solution to that problem was definitely not to follow Morpheus and Trinity into the real.
I mean, he didn’t really have either of those things.
His boss at the office was tearing him a new asshole over being a few minutes late, and he definitely wouldn’t have gone to the club with those people he sold the virus to if he didn’t get that cryptic “follow the white rabbit” message.
Of course, the solution to that problem was definitely not to follow Morpheus and Trinity into the real.
He also had gender dysphoria, if you listen to the subtext in Morpheus’ speech near the beginning