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I guess they didn’t watch any other part of the movies where all those tube people live in our regular world holding jobs and paying rent
Yeah but its the 90s. At that time, my oma bought a house in a nice neighborhood and set up a retirement plan on an American teachers salary. In the south.
Wasn't that explicitly mentioned in the film, that that is the best time in civilization?
The height of our civilization, is what he says. I think.
Please tell us more Mr Smith.
Damn his voice is so great. You gotta hear rather than simply read it.:-)
The height of human society.
Me in 1999: Haha, good joke, things will get even better.
Me in 2026: Damn, how right they were.
Zion or bust!
No not that Zion!
Wouldn't it be the same Zion? Pretty sure the one in the Matrix got its name from the Jewish/Christian one. And I believe it even is meant as an allegory for Jerusalem.
Yeah. That was the awkward joke I was going for.
lol yeah not that one. The one in the deep deep south.
No, not the best time, just the last time in humans where actually in charge before everything started to be controlled by machines.
IIRC the architect in part 2 even said that they tried to make the matrix a paradise, but that would make its inhabitants more suspicious, leading to a faster collapse of the fake reality.
Yes
Yep. I'd take 90s adulthood over this shit.
Nah, guys, the machines totally tried to make it a utopia and it, uh, just didn't take. Ya gotta work til you die, the abundance of resources is unconnected. Stop asking questions.
I would take them at their word for that. If they made some sort of hyper real super pleasure heaven of pure bliss the tendency towards betterment would drive humans insane. Maybe once that failed there were just like 'these fuckers are a mess, just dupe back when they thought they were happy and call it good.'
These monkes love conflict an struggle more than they admit. Make them suffer just enough so they don’t wake up.