• mindbleach@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In hindsight, it’s surprising that Smith didn’t namedrop “the end of history.”

    Morpheus refers to the scorched Earth using a line from Baudrillard. And IIRC originally made much clearer reference to simulacra, in a way that would have pissed off a generation of philosophy professors by being incorrect. I suppose they’d eventually recover by saying “It’s more like Inception,” because nobody saw Existenz.