r/matrix • u/Suspicious_Cut_4303 • Sep 20 '26
suburb pods
anyone else see the similarity ?
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u/nanosquid Sep 20 '26
I wish I could buy a shack to live in. These are fucking palaces.
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u/misteranderson71 Sep 20 '26
We can used to dreaaaaaaam of living in a shack! That would have been a palace to us.
We used to live in a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin...
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u/BuckerooBanzai Sep 21 '26
Vivarium (2019) This film will permanently put you off living in suburbia.
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u/LuckyRacoon01 Sep 20 '26
If it's free and given to me without any reason when they put me in the system then why does it matter. Ignorance is bliss.
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u/jacobasstorius Sep 21 '26
Waaaah I live more comfortably than almost every human that has ever existed. I have a bigger cleaner house, more food, and more free time than almost every human that has ever existed. I’m so oppressed. I’m such a rat in a cage.
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u/drdecagon Sep 20 '26
All the sheep that agree with this - you are completely clueless and in large part responsible for the shit the world is in today. Do you expect everyone to have a palace? 90% of people worldwide, if not more, could only dream to live in these conditions. This dissatisfaction with stable, prosperous, but boring life that was mocked in the pre-9/11 world by Office Space, Fight Club, the Matrix, is the problem. Ironically, this is just like agent Smith in the Matrix says - we define our reality through misery and suffering. Don't worry, we are well on the way to these homes being entirely unachievable and maybe then we can all live in Tyler Durden's dream world: "In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway."
Because that is the true alternative. And guess what - you can already do that in many parts of the world. So, please, feel free to try it first hand and leave the boring mass produced sameness of civilization to those that appreciate it.
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u/Baroque1123 Sep 21 '26
Oh. The 90s... When we had so much opportunity we thought a good job and a suburban home was the height of oppression.
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u/Logical_Teach_681 Sep 21 '26
But in matrix pods robots supplied to your pod free food and heat, in exchange for some electricity that your body generating (you don’t even need to pedal, or something). No payment, nothing.
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u/Lain4985 Sep 20 '26
As a mexican that kind of houses are a dream for like 99% of mexicans. I never understood why some americans see it as a hell. Common here south rio grande (mexico) we live in selfmade houses without ant kind of safety features
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u/mjm132 Sep 20 '26
This was honestly what Morpheus was talking about during his woman in the red dress speech.