• CatoPosting [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    It just feels really strange, because the system is the people enforcing it. It is the people profiting from it, upholding it. This isn’t the matrix, they system cants be defined and left, it is people with motive to maintain it.

    • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      11 days ago

      This isn’t the matrix, they system cants be defined and left, it is people with motive to maintain it.

      To be fair, that is also true of the Matrix:

      The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.