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Just being a battery (europe.pub)
submitted 8 months ago* by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 185 points 8 months ago (20 children)

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

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  • [+] 144 points 8 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)
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  • [–] 94 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    Wasn't that explicitly mentioned in the film, that that is the best time in civilization?

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  • [–] 48 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    The height of human society.

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  • [–] 94 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Me in 1999: Haha, good joke, things will get even better.

    Me in 2026: Damn, how right they were.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Zion or bust!

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    No not that Zion!

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  • [–] 43 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The height of our civilization, is what he says. I think.

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  • [–] 60 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say "your" civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became "our" civilization, which is of course what this is all about.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    No, not the best time, just the last time in humans where actually in charge before everything started to be controlled by machines.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.'

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