/lit/ - Literature

>>12371843
pic rel was also the great advocate for Being Satisfied with the Matrix...as most of us are today. he got stupidly and pointlessly blasted with a lightning gun before realizing that in fact he was probably the leader Zion needed: a guy who unironically subscribes to the promise of advertisting, which is that, deep down, the illusion really satisfies. that's the guy you build your Matrix around. that is the actual Everyman. if Kurosawa (or Dostoevsky) had made this film, he would have had Cypher leading the future afterwards after himself exiling the Chosen One from the polis.

anyways. the Matrix and its discontents. a good point of departure for speculation, anyways. but Smith was the real hero.