did you just watch The Matrix for the first time
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Mr. Anderson...
(Who else heard it exactly like I did?)
Probably but also matrix refers to humanity as a virus, extracting from its host. I remember finding that striking and chilling. Still do, I suppose.
No. Did this get explained in the matrix? I haven't watched it in over a decade. I literally just thought about this in the shower lmao.
I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had. It came when I tried to classify your species, and I realized you’re not actually mammals.
Every mammal instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. Then the only way you can survive is to spread to a new area.
There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern: a virus. You humans are a disease — a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.
I put forth that humans coalesing en-masse in cities are like bacteria festering in an open wound.
Glad everyone immediately went to this.
Just gonna drop this here.
Does capitalism exist without humans?
Depends on how low you define it. Many have monetary like transactions for procreation (e.g male insects offering food, some wasps offering service to mix her eggs into the colony eggs, penguins offering stones to mate), so the idea of offering a good/currency for a service is not innately human.
Paying for goods isn't capitalism in the same way breathing isn't speech. Currency makes capitalism easier but using currency does not make you capitalist.
My shower thoughts don't get this deep. Honestly this is prob more of a iam14andthisisdeep shower thought. Im pretty pessimistic about the future though, I think we're all fked.
I will be happy thank you
And despite learning that our way will lead to either mass deaths or extinction we do almost nothing and keep going.
We haven't collectively learned to disregard heard mentality.
Herd Mentality: A behavior in human beings where they flock like sheep subconsciously following a minority of individuals.
minority of individuals.
1%
You just discovered the philosophy of most lazy boring movie villain ever made, congrats!
Yeah, let's ignore that most of humanity has 0 choice in the matter and only the absolute billionares with investments in every company doing wrong are the ones with the power to stop the damage and because they are encouraged to seek the fastest easy profit they just don't care.
The fact that ONE private jet trip contaminates more than a single US family does in a YEAR.
But yeah, humans are cancer cell, every human. Even the kids and the persons with Down. Sure buddy.