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There are dozens if not hundreds. It was the great big indie movie topic of that decade. As Fight Club put it, "Our generation has no great war and no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war and our great depression is our lives."
The 90s were going so well that most people had nothing to stress about outwardly. The last major war was Vietnam. The economy was booming. The internet was changing our lives. So they started looking inward at their purpose of existence and the meaning of their lives.
Consider "The Matrix," the "prison" that Mr Anderson was pulled from was being an incredibly gifted computer programmer who had a stable job and lived alone. Something most people would dream for today.
Comment by wupu at 10/03/2025 at 06:33 UTC
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Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world. Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, *the peak of your civilization.*
~
Too prescient...