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“I´d like to share a revelation that I´ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realized that you’re not actually

“I´d like to share a revelation that I´ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we… are the cure.” Agent Smith.

op00to 4y ago
As someone who dealt with a rabbit infestation, there is no natural equilibrium.
- spoiler 4y ago
  Can you provide more context on this? I have so many questions It probably wasn't a funny experience for you, but this made me laugh.
  - op00to 4y ago
    Infestation is a strong term. It seems like every few years there's a combination of factors that somehow create a bumper crop of bunnies in my yard. We'll go from normally seeing a few early morning or evening to having 4-5 bunnies hopping around all the time. Which is pretty cool, all things considered as long as you treat your property for ticks and whatnot. By the next year, though, it'd be back to just a few bunnies. Maybe there's not nearly enough food to support the extra bunnies through the winter. I saw a bald eagle over my house for the first time the other day (NE US). I wonder if the bunny situation will change with more predators.
- kilgnad 4y ago
  There is. Just not with your rabbit alone. The equilibrium evolves at the ecosystem level. In the wilderness it's predators. For your case, you are "dealing" with the rabbit infestation, therefore YOU are the one that's going to be applying pressure. YOU are part of the system.
411111111111111 4y ago
While it's a funny quote it couldn't be further from the truth. All mammals will do this, modern society is just significantly more successful at it.
- ChatGTP 4y ago
  To say it another way, humans don't have any natural predators to keep populations in check? We do however seem to be developing a common conscience that seems to be headed in the right direction with regards to sustainability.
  - luckylion 4y ago
    It doesn't need to be a predator, it can also be food. We certainly have food shortages and mass starvations. We've gotten a lot better at producing food, but it's not a solved problem at all, we've just moved the limit.
    - waynesonfire 4y ago
      like adding more lanes to a freeway to alleviate congestion. doesn't work.
tjpnz 4y ago
Lana Wachowski did us dirty not bringing back Hugo Weaving for Matrix 4.
- Obscurity4340 4y ago
  There's a Matrix 4v
- hungryforcodes 4y ago
  He declined the role if I recall.
  - tjpnz 4y ago
    He was tied up with a stage show at the time, if they could've waited he would've reprised his role. Wouldn't have hurt box office performance if they did given the film was ultimately released at the tail end of Covid.
- yakubin 4y ago
  Hugo Weaving is too good for Matrix 4.
Paradigma11 4y ago
Nope, just nope: https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/108152 https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/108152 https://macleans.ca/society/lemming-population-cycle-explanation/ https://macleans.ca/society/lemming-population-cycle-explana... This is nature.
kilgnad 4y ago
No it does not. No mammal develops a natural instinct to flow into an equilibrium. What is happening is natural selection is operating on a more macro scale. Ecosystems can be naturally selected out or in. Ecosystems where the individual components do not function in equilibrium overload and die out. The only thing you have left are ecosystems with "mammals" that happen to be in equilibrium. The minute you introduce a foreign species into a new ecosystem you break the system by introducing a variable that has a positive feedback loop. The ecosystem either overloads or humans can intervene by apply negative pressure (ie manual culling by hunting the invasive species or even genetic engineering). Humans are simply a natural overload. We could be part of an ecosystem that is suppose to overload and die out so that another ecosystem that has a higher equilibrium can take its place. >Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we… are the cure.” Agent Smith. The matrix was such a garbage movie thematically speaking. They had a huge lack of understanding around the nuance and nature of biology.

op00to 4y ago

As someone who dealt with a rabbit infestation, there is no natural equilibrium.

spoiler 4y ago
Can you provide more context on this? I have so many questions It probably wasn't a funny experience for you, but this made me laugh.
- op00to 4y ago
  Infestation is a strong term. It seems like every few years there's a combination of factors that somehow create a bumper crop of bunnies in my yard. We'll go from normally seeing a few early morning or evening to having 4-5 bunnies hopping around all the time. Which is pretty cool, all things considered as long as you treat your property for ticks and whatnot. By the next year, though, it'd be back to just a few bunnies. Maybe there's not nearly enough food to support the extra bunnies through the winter. I saw a bald eagle over my house for the first time the other day (NE US). I wonder if the bunny situation will change with more predators.
kilgnad 4y ago
There is. Just not with your rabbit alone. The equilibrium evolves at the ecosystem level. In the wilderness it's predators. For your case, you are "dealing" with the rabbit infestation, therefore YOU are the one that's going to be applying pressure. YOU are part of the system.

411111111111111 4y ago

While it's a funny quote it couldn't be further from the truth. All mammals will do this, modern society is just significantly more successful at it.

ChatGTP 4y ago
To say it another way, humans don't have any natural predators to keep populations in check? We do however seem to be developing a common conscience that seems to be headed in the right direction with regards to sustainability.
- luckylion 4y ago
  It doesn't need to be a predator, it can also be food. We certainly have food shortages and mass starvations. We've gotten a lot better at producing food, but it's not a solved problem at all, we've just moved the limit.
  - waynesonfire 4y ago
    like adding more lanes to a freeway to alleviate congestion. doesn't work.

tjpnz 4y ago

Lana Wachowski did us dirty not bringing back Hugo Weaving for Matrix 4.

Obscurity4340 4y ago
There's a Matrix 4v
hungryforcodes 4y ago
He declined the role if I recall.
- tjpnz 4y ago
  He was tied up with a stage show at the time, if they could've waited he would've reprised his role. Wouldn't have hurt box office performance if they did given the film was ultimately released at the tail end of Covid.
yakubin 4y ago
Hugo Weaving is too good for Matrix 4.

Paradigma11 4y ago

Nope, just nope: https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/108152 https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/108152 https://macleans.ca/society/lemming-population-cycle-explanation/ https://macleans.ca/society/lemming-population-cycle-explana... This is nature.

kilgnad 4y ago

No it does not. No mammal develops a natural instinct to flow into an equilibrium. What is happening is natural selection is operating on a more macro scale. Ecosystems can be naturally selected out or in. Ecosystems where the individual components do not function in equilibrium overload and die out. The only thing you have left are ecosystems with "mammals" that happen to be in equilibrium. The minute you introduce a foreign species into a new ecosystem you break the system by introducing a variable that has a positive feedback loop. The ecosystem either overloads or humans can intervene by apply negative pressure (ie manual culling by hunting the invasive species or even genetic engineering). Humans are simply a natural overload. We could be part of an ecosystem that is suppose to overload and die out so that another ecosystem that has a higher equilibrium can take its place. >Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we… are the cure.” Agent Smith. The matrix was such a garbage movie thematically speaking. They had a huge lack of understanding around the nuance and nature of biology.