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Jake Wiskerchen's avatar

Damn, that was good. Excellent piece.

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Sheila Crook-Lockwood's avatar

Excellent analysis

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Chuck Pezeshki's avatar

Great piece -- this made my piece on this far more tractable, so thanks!

If you want a deeper dive into The Matrix, here you go: https://empathy.guru/2022/10/29/vampire-colonies-ab2098-transhumanism-and-life-in-the-matrix/

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Matt's avatar

Great essay! It definitely resonated with me.

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Jac's avatar

I enjoyed this, thank you I will be laughing quietly to myself now whenever I see someone acting out like an "Alison"

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George's avatar

Great essay.

It's ironic because I saw that movie the first time through the church. It made me profoundly uncomfortable, and didn't like it much lol. But then I was the geek trying to figure all that stuff out.

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ClownBasket's avatar

I think it made all of us uncomfortable, tbh. Because none of the archetypes was any better than the others and each was deeply flawed. Not to mention the fact that most of us identified across multiple Breakfast Club archetypes and feared that we had a propensity toward ALL of the archetypes.

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Claudine Notacat's avatar

I would love to see more of your original writing. The roundups are useful, but I love to see posts like this one.

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ClownBasket's avatar

Ah, thank you. Yes, I have some ideas half written that I would like to flesh out. But I have a fun two-parter coming out tomorrow! Stay tuned.

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Michael's avatar

Superb read. Thank you

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