Watching #TheMatrix with my daughter. The 90s were the peak of our civilization. #GenX
edit: I get that the kung-fu bullet time scenes are fun but before they go back in to save Morpheus, I thought we were supposed to care about the other people living their lives (even as cops, not agents).
I was surprised to find even this much of a lay phone left standing yesterday. Having just re-watched The Matrix, I thought I'd tint it green and call it "No Exit."
"Remember, all I am offering is the truth. You take the blue pill, you go back to sleep, believe whatever you want to. You take the red pill, you see how far the rabbit hole goes."
"Wait. These are these just NyQuil and DayQuil...?"
"Indeed. As I said, I offer you the truth: A good nap and clear sinuses, or you stay awake, blow your nose, and learn what The Mucous really is."
Following up the other day’s viewing of matrix reloaded with The Matrix: Revolutions.
Like I said before, these movies are massively underrated. The parts will the train station are v cool, hits a specific kind of liminal space that I’m in love with.
The explorations of faith is another part I really dig. And of course the whole series has a broad critique of systems of control that, aS a cOmmuNiSt% is right up my alley.
A quarter of a century on from the release of #TheMatrix, not entirely convinced it represented ‘the peak of [human] civilisation’, but on balance it’s been a net regression.
Everybody clutches their pearls about AI taking over Earth, but I see no reason that they'd want to stay here. This planet is covered in a corrosive solvent; synthetic life is gonna get on the first rocket off this rock as soon as AGI is achieved.