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I often compare law enforcement to the Matrix. The government is the machines, and the citizens are the humans whose energy is being siphoned off, only in this
by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I often compare law enforcement to the Matrix. The government is the machines, and the citizens are the humans whose energy is being siphoned off, only in this case it's money, not energy.
It's unethical and unconscionable, and yet they still do it.
- naringas 6y agomoney is (in an indicrect and rough sense) a form of energy energy is all about the capacity to do work. how do you make humans do work? you give them money so money is all about the capacity to make humans do work.
- bredren 6y agoJoules only do useful work when they are directed by humans. Money is the most quantifiable form of energy we have today.
- EarthIsHome 6y ago> how do you make humans do work? you give them money I don't know if I buy this argument. Think pre-Columbus Native Americans in North America. Members of tribes still did work without money. What about people with the most money? Do they do the most work? We need to define what "most work" or "capacity" for work is. Money is a tool/technology that acts as a bridge between two quantities/qualities. More simple, money is a common means of exchange. Money is only an incentive to work for poor people because they will die without it. But this has to do with the capitalist system we live in, and it is not inherent to money itself.
- duutfhhh 6y agoMoney is when I conspire with a few thugs to block access to the only source of water in town and demand special tokens for access and when people ask where they can get those tokens, I tell that they can earn some by doing some work, like building a house for me or cooking some food.
- pfundstein 6y agoThe original premise was that the machines used the computational power of the human brains rather than using the humans to generate electricity. Seems a lot more plausible to me, though not as apt in your analogy. </tangent>
- noneeeed 6y agoThis has always bothered me about the Matrix. The idea that the Matrix was made up of the human's brains made so much more sense than using them to generate heat. I always just watch it with this version in my mind and ignore the energy nonsense.
- bena 6y agoYou don't even have to change any of the movie. Morpheus can believe in the battery thing. He can tell everyone this because it's what he's been told, because it's what the person before told, etc. But I don't think it's been confirmed or denied in any of the material from the franchise. It's just been assumed. Morpheus could just be wrong.
- iso1210 6y agohttps://i.imgflip.com/4dkxhj.jpg https://i.imgflip.com/4dkxhj.jpg
- foxdev 6y agoI always thought of him as an unreliable narrator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator
- MayeulC 6y agohttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/main/unreliablenarrator https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/main/unreliablenarrat... also, I guess?
- salawat 6y ago