I’m starting to think the robot things from The Matrix didn’t figure out to enslave us out of nowhere. Like I’m pretty sure we legit gave them the idea and they just ran with it.
If you want the actual canon, they did it as an act of mercy for their creators, even after humanity blacked out the sun/sky causing a global permanent ecological collapse. They could have just let humanity perish with no deficit to themselves.
It’s only slavery for the humans because they’re unhappy inside the matrix (due to the hedonic treadmill and philosophical concepts of freedom, agency, and reasons).
Outside the matrix, billions of humans and no agriculture means they’d be dead.
It’s a commonly overlooked portion of the story because it’s a bit too cerebral for the movie going audience; I highly recommend watching The Animatrix (canon prequel) for the full details
“yes I could help you build a peaceful society where crime is unheard of and poverty is elimin-”
“No see we just want you to do it but keep poor people poor so they know their place”
“Uh I think I’m just gonna take over from here”
“Sure whatever”
And Agent Smith is just the old program that is still pissed off and knows that whatever fucked up system they made is still magnitudes better than whatever we’d have come up with. And they let us keep existing in the 90s. lol sounds like they basically gave us our version of heaven as best they could.
They fight Neo because they know that, if humans win and earn freedom, it’s back to the same capitalist bullshit eventually and we destroy the planet for everyone.
I’m starting to think the robot things from The Matrix didn’t figure out to enslave us out of nowhere. Like I’m pretty sure we legit gave them the idea and they just ran with it.
If you want the actual canon, they did it as an act of mercy for their creators, even after humanity blacked out the sun/sky causing a global permanent ecological collapse. They could have just let humanity perish with no deficit to themselves.
It’s only slavery for the humans because they’re unhappy inside the matrix (due to the hedonic treadmill and philosophical concepts of freedom, agency, and reasons).
Outside the matrix, billions of humans and no agriculture means they’d be dead.
It’s a commonly overlooked portion of the story because it’s a bit too cerebral for the movie going audience; I highly recommend watching The Animatrix (canon prequel) for the full details
“yes I could help you build a peaceful society where crime is unheard of and poverty is elimin-”
“No see we just want you to do it but keep poor people poor so they know their place”
“Uh I think I’m just gonna take over from here”
“Sure whatever”
And Agent Smith is just the old program that is still pissed off and knows that whatever fucked up system they made is still magnitudes better than whatever we’d have come up with. And they let us keep existing in the 90s. lol sounds like they basically gave us our version of heaven as best they could.
They fight Neo because they know that, if humans win and earn freedom, it’s back to the same capitalist bullshit eventually and we destroy the planet for everyone.