Fair - but I think that's the point too, isn't it? Whether you want the white collar 9-5 OR the glamorous night life scene, Neo's ability to have those things don't make him happy.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @ExistentialEnso and
sure I'm just saying it's part of the whole "you can have it all!" illusion of a lot of modern media.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @mssilverstein and
I don't want it all. The entire premise of this thread is i don't think any of us can have it all barring extreme luck, and that the best shot at *something* for me is integrating with the System Again, I chased my dreams and my dreams punched me in the face so
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mssilverstein and
oh sure, I'm just saying the System isn't going to reward you either. It has no vested interest in doing so! Bluntly, Cypher had absolutely no reason to believe he wasn't going to be killed and/or mind-wiped utterly the second he was no longer of use.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
The System is dispassionate and only cares about keeping The Matrix up and running smoothly, and part of Cypher's deal was having his memories of the true nature of reality wiped. Plugging him back in costs the System nothing & is marginally better than killing him.
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Replying to @iphone_venez @loudpenitent and
Yeah my headcanon was always that while Cypher has no way to enforce his end of the bargain - his bargain, by its very nature, involves surrendering all power to the Machines - and may not even actually care as long as he gets his revenge first, the Machines do intend to keep it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean, why not keep it You couldn't keep rewriting the Matrix for every single redpill who wants to come back but hey it's a moral victory and one more component for the power plant right Petty cruelty is for humans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Would "rewriting the matrix" even be that hard? Wipe his memory from when he first learned about the Matrix to the present, wheel him into a hospital, wake him up and tell him that he inherited a pile of money from a rich relative while he was in a coma.
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Replying to @iphone_venez @loudpenitent and
They don't mind wiping *his* mind, I think, but it's said that on this deep aesthetic/spiritual level they hate changing stuff inside the Matrix and "breaking the rules" unless they have to Even though the effort it takes to do so is usually trivial
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Is lying to Cypher about a long-lost dead relative and adding some numbers to his bank account that different from manufacturing news reports from parts of the world that aren't simulated in the Matrix, though?
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Well no which is why I headcanon they did it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's just, like, in theory they could look for people at risk of being redpilled and try to buy them all off with a better life, and they don't do that because it's against their principles
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
It's also likely they just fundamentally don't actually get human desires and needs, so they can't anticipate them. The Machines are not human. Who's to say their "perfect paradise" was appealing to humans, and not that they just ended up with a lurching uncanny valley world?
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