[lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions

  • From: Eric Yost <NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:11:59 -0400

RP> Yes, of course. I was confusing his decision to 'go back' with his 
taking a blue
RP> pill. (I'm not sure how he returns to the Matrix.)

I'm not sure either.

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He didn't go back. He was killed in an attempt to take over the 
hovercraft and sabotage our heroes, then in the Matrix, from outside.

It always bothered me that -- like so many issues accessed by pop 
culture -- the real problem in the Matrix was never addressed.

Neo becomes the Uebermensch of the Matrix. Big deal. Meanwhile countless 
millions remain imprisoned in their gel-pack sleep pods. At the end of 
Matrix 1, Neo, at most, gets control of the propaganda arm of the state.

The real instrument of oppression continues without a hitch. No raiding 
parties to destroy the sleep pods, folks, just a lot of flying around 
and fancy talk. So much like the Sixties.

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