Cypher was right
Except for the killing everyone else part
Cypher was factually correct in acknowledging that knowledge is pain.
Cypher was ethically wrong choosing willful ignorance because he made it other people’s problem.
I prefer the pain of truth to the bliss of ignorance. It is the source of meaning I have chosen in life.
The strong stare the ugly truth in the face without hope or expectation, the weak wake up in their bed and believe… whatever they want to believe.
The propagation of pleasant willful ignorance is the main mechanism allowing most of our global crises to proceed.
No that’s the best bit. Kill everyone know nothing sounds like the finest of lives.
I don’t think he preferred to kill people, that was just the price for the “life” he wanted to live.
I think Cypher enjoyed putting Morpheus in a position to be tortured and killed exclusively, the rest were collateral damage in achieving his digital material goals.
Cypher seemed to hold Morpheus alone accountable for his years of misery.
Then you better never check the lamp too…
Legendary reference.
Can someone link it for the unaware such as myself
Kind of heavy, but a hell of a read.
gosh darn that’s the sort of existential dread I didn’t need an hour before going to sleep. well, more like the sort of existantial dread no one needed.
This story fucks me up every time I read it. Either brains are one of the craziest organs ever or OP somehow did what the repost title says and dropped into a parallel dimension while his brain was recovering.
Brain indeed is one of the craziest organs ever.
