it's a pretty neat explicitly Marxist allegory that just adds a true ruling class
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I mean that's it, isn't it, fooling luddites into thinking technological progress itself is the enemy
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when tech by nature is something we should all benefit from
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The sequel should have a human who is a female villain and we learn offhand that before she designed the matrix she was >
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Oligarchs, unlike even Neo, really can do whatever they want and be whoever they want
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so why not go whole hog and have her deal be wanting to live eternally as a feudal princess or whatever
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(Oligarchs get to upload their minds and live forever without bodies)
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(It's strongly implied that where they were going was having Merovingian be a former Oligarch who rebelled)
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(this stuff comes out in dribs and drabs from Merovingian's Secrets of the Matrix quests)
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he sends you on quests motivated primarily by his own frustration at not knowing who he is or where he came from
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
he just woke up one day as a wealthy powerful pleasure addicted asshole who can't leave the Matrix
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and who has tons of knowledge of everyone else's secrets but not his own
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