• fidodo@lemm.ee
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      It’s because it’s the time period when the capitalists found the sweet spot of giving people a good enough life to not revolt, but not good enough to let them get ahead.

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      That’s not what they said. They made the Matrix the 1990’s, the pinnacle of human civilization.

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      In hindsight, it’s surprising that Smith didn’t namedrop “the end of history.”

      Morpheus refers to the scorched Earth using a line from Baudrillard. And IIRC originally made much clearer reference to simulacra, in a way that would have pissed off a generation of philosophy professors by being incorrect. I suppose they’d eventually recover by saying “It’s more like Inception,” because nobody saw Existenz.