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Keanu Reeves and Nikola Tesla to a degree as well, are decent figures. Aside from all the cult classics Keanu is part of like john wick and the matrix, even di

Keanu Reeves and Nikola Tesla to a degree as well, are decent figures. Aside from all the cult classics Keanu is part of like john wick and the matrix, even discounting that, he is a good person in it of itself who is genuinely humble and might be one of the best persons within hollywood. What I feel pissed about is that people like Andrew Tate and others like them took the concept of Matrix and the contributions Keanu did within that movie and tried to capitalize on that cult classic decades after in the most toxic form that might be the issue if we are talking about an era To be honest, Nikola tesla is also a great person within the context of his time. GGP's comment is still true but Tesla's contributions can hardly be reinstated and I'd much rather people believe these to be the heros (Keanu/Tesla) rather than Tate/Musk etc. If I take anything from Keanu, I would like to take his humility/humbleness.

giancarlostoro 7mo ago
Tate is just attention hungry. It’s pretty obvious. If you feed no attention to him, he will go back to where he crawled from.
ndsipa_pomu 7mo ago
Whilst I agree that Keanu is a most excellent human, he was hardly responsible for the concept of the Matrix. In my opinion, Philip K Dick was a major influence (I'm a fan and consider him the prophet of the modern age), though Gibson's Neuromancer was likely a big influence too. (Also, there's the old Doctor Who episode "The Deadly Assassin" which features the Matrix). It always seems to me that the far right are bereft of original ideas and always co-opt other pre-existing concepts. There's exceptions, but I always find that right wing works are always lacking humour or irony (c.f. Ayn Rand's works).
- something765478 7mo ago
  > the far right are bereft of original ideas and always co-opt other pre-existing concepts. That's not unique to them: Good artists copy; great artists steal.
  - ndsipa_pomu 7mo ago
    Yes, but I'd have difficulty in pronouncing Andrew Tate as a good or great artist. Maybe con-artist would be the highest that I'd go.
  - tomtomtom777 7mo ago
    "It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. And he annexes everything." - Oscar Wilde

giancarlostoro 7mo ago

Tate is just attention hungry. It’s pretty obvious. If you feed no attention to him, he will go back to where he crawled from.

ndsipa_pomu 7mo ago

Whilst I agree that Keanu is a most excellent human, he was hardly responsible for the concept of the Matrix. In my opinion, Philip K Dick was a major influence (I'm a fan and consider him the prophet of the modern age), though Gibson's Neuromancer was likely a big influence too. (Also, there's the old Doctor Who episode "The Deadly Assassin" which features the Matrix). It always seems to me that the far right are bereft of original ideas and always co-opt other pre-existing concepts. There's exceptions, but I always find that right wing works are always lacking humour or irony (c.f. Ayn Rand's works).

something765478 7mo ago
> the far right are bereft of original ideas and always co-opt other pre-existing concepts. That's not unique to them: Good artists copy; great artists steal.
- ndsipa_pomu 7mo ago
  Yes, but I'd have difficulty in pronouncing Andrew Tate as a good or great artist. Maybe con-artist would be the highest that I'd go.
- tomtomtom777 7mo ago
  "It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. And he annexes everything." - Oscar Wilde