First time user of Substack and this newsletter. I truly enjoyed reading this and wrote down the names of those movies. It's pleasing to see how The Matrix, a movie that existentially terrified me as a child, not only for that bug in Keanu's belly button but for the solopsism-like separation of humans from each other I only recognized later to be so hauntingly similar to the alienation of capitalism.
I had to read it, like I had to comment on such a pleasant and easy read I could have easily thrown off my whole schedule today to read if it was must longer. Thank you. I need to make some money to throw into the guitar case, but I will return.
"In an absurd sense, the desire to escape the matrix has itself become a recuperation industrial complex repackaging the matrix from an attempt at radical art into the foundation of a movement to the centerpiece of capitalist shills selling working yourself harder to buy your way out of the human condition."
I just really like when someone puts to words something I noticed but couldnt express
I like long posts, but then again I'm the kind of person who voted in substack polls
Def interested in your take as to why they distrusted The Plan as the story went on
First time user of Substack and this newsletter. I truly enjoyed reading this and wrote down the names of those movies. It's pleasing to see how The Matrix, a movie that existentially terrified me as a child, not only for that bug in Keanu's belly button but for the solopsism-like separation of humans from each other I only recognized later to be so hauntingly similar to the alienation of capitalism.
I had to read it, like I had to comment on such a pleasant and easy read I could have easily thrown off my whole schedule today to read if it was must longer. Thank you. I need to make some money to throw into the guitar case, but I will return.
"In an absurd sense, the desire to escape the matrix has itself become a recuperation industrial complex repackaging the matrix from an attempt at radical art into the foundation of a movement to the centerpiece of capitalist shills selling working yourself harder to buy your way out of the human condition."
I just really like when someone puts to words something I noticed but couldnt express