So I was thinking about The Matrix, as I do approximately nineteen times per second, and a new topic came to me to discuss
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
It stemmed, as many of my daily thoughts do, from my ongoing challenges stemming from personal financs
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Two observations came to me at once: Neo, even in his seemingly "normal," middle class life that seems quite similar to that >
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> of Fight Club's narrator (which I suspect partly explains how both films attract the Wrong Sort of Fan so much), is not rich, >
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> and not even really comfortable, unlike the Fight Club character often called "Jack," who spends a lot of time extolling his wealth
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Neo works as "a program writer for a respectable software company," but he already works with the shadowy underground as an e-merc
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Clearly his IT salary isn't paying all of his bills, and you'd think it would given that he lives in a studio with a computer
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and apparently doesn't partake in drugs like most of his peers do. So, why would Neo be selling illegal software at all?
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I always interpreted this as him acting out, striking against the system
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he knows who Morpheus is and sympathizes with his beliefs and inside the Matrix Morpheus is basically an anarcho-communist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I didn't see it as coming from financial need, Smith's speech implies that it isn't
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