All the books and movies about bad stuff all in one! Not really sure where The Matrix fits there…like, is the heritage foundation gonna turn us into computer programs?

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I’m more stumped by Handmaid’s Tale + Brave New World = Brazil

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None make any sense

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Throw in some Fahrenheit 451 and you get the Matrix.

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My Thesis on Literature that I live by is that you can bend anything to any interpretation but the further your take strays from authorial intent the more you need to justify that take and this can be taken to absurd extremes if you are really good at bullshitting. This venn diagram proved me wrong

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It didn’t disprove your thesis. Libs are really good at bullshitting via

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Brazil has far more in common with The Trial than it does with either of those two movies.

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The Matrix is outside 1984

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