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 And IIRC originally made much clearer reference to simulacra, in a way that would have pissed off a generation of philosophy professors by being incorrect.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.
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 And IIRC originally made much clearer reference to simulacra, in a way that would have pissed off a generation of philosophy professors by being incorrect.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.