The way he talked about and treated Trinity was pretty not okay
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Didn't he also kill Switch? Or at the very least was directly involved in Switch dying
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Replying to @BenGSchout @arthur_affect
I still say Switch was an enemy combatant and he switched sides. We don't see it but we know Switch, like every other one of the rebel crew who can jack in, has been conditioned to see anyone still in a pod as expendable and to kill them at will
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
But Switch is also trans (sort of)!
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Replying to @BenGSchout @arthur_affect
I think that given the ways allegories stack into a text like the Matrix, and that the Wachowskis have stated it doesn't have one specific "meaning," that Cypher's story and Switch's story can be about something besides being trans, or about different aspects of it
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To me, right now, Cypher is very much a metaphor for how I feel "drafted" by virtue of being trans into a bunch of accelerationist-type leftism that doesn't even seem related, and how I feel as if trying to get in mainstream society's good side is going to work out better
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It's related to my repeated observation that Neo's life before he "wakes up" is pretty sweet, actually
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Didn't Neo just have the life of the guy from Office Space
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And the guy in Fight Club, and the guy in American Beauty (minus the wife and daughter) 1999 was full of films about being sick of the seemingly idyllic stable yuppie life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Giving them perhaps more credit than they deserve, some of that was probably grappling with the underlying rot of the 90s status quo. like the fact that millennials envy a stable job by comparison doesn't actually mean that prior way was great.
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Well yeah all the eyerolling at other people's seemingly unjustified unhappiness in the world won't succeed at actually making them happy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Yeah, especially because ultimately what millennials envy is a *myth*, a mirage. The Startup Job in the Tech City, the Nice Job and Comfortable House in the Suburbs, these are all fake, sales pitches buoyed up by triumphant narratives about how it'll All Be Worth It.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
'Cause that stable 90s job still involved a fuckton of abasement, microaggressions, distaste, and ennui; the good 50s job still involved being away from your family. We envy *pieces* of it, nice-sounding perks, but not the base state they conceal.
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