Exposing the Splinter

"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life--that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad."
--Morpheus (The Matrix)

I increasingly suspect that this chain of logic may be true.

For restless minds bothered by the feeling that there has been something wrong with the course of events over the past 18 months, this may be the splinter.