Comment on The Matrix

Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Matrix is a Rambo 3 remake. Living in a cave and eating slop is an allegory for shooting explosive arrows into a bridge.

  Still worth it.

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but what is the blue pill for?
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    It lights blue.

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But my estradiol is a blue pill? 🤔

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  • hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Big pharma ruined the metaphor by changing the pill colors.

    The blue pill was an antidepressant, the red pill was estrogen.

    Also the main villian is a man in a suit who constantly deadnames the protagonist. The matrix is real life.

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wonder if they did it intentionally.

      Changing the pill from red to blue basically cost them nothing and served no purpose, but just so happened to ruin the metaphor.

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  • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At the time they were red.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It can be interpreted that way. That doesn’t mean that anybody who doesn’t see it that way is wrong.

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• Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its an alagory for the social matrix we all find ourselves in.

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s an allegory for the fact that through their control of the media, the rich can construct whatever reality they want in the minds of the masses.

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    • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Indeed

      “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
      ― Edward Bernays, Propaganda

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      • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I submit that the only antidote to propaganda which is capable of curing whole societies, is the conscious manipulation of one’s own beliefs and perceptions. We must abandon the desire for objective reality, and instead become masters of our personal unrealities. Great responsibility can only be fulfilled with great power. We must become better than we are. We must take hold of the power of unreality for ourselves.

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