Turns out they're more focused on your ability to generate large bodies of neatly formatted prose and not terribly interested in the content.
Didn't he say on chapo that he almost never actually watches the movies he reviews?
You haven’t seen the original Matrix? How? Zoomer alert
....I used to do this when I was a teenager because I thought I was so smart and cool and edgy....
i knew this guy that, probably out of all his unstructured time, a good 70% of it was spent writing reviews and commenting argumentatively on reviews of books on the amazon website. he admitted to me that he never read any of the reviews, but was quite certain of his positions. it should be noted that he was supposed to be spending some time cleaning the apartment he lived in or looking for work to help his much younger girlfriend, who was the sole income earner and general handler of household tasks like paying bills, preparing food, and keeping the place tidy.
years later, she sent his ass packing. within a year, he had turned into hard into trad greek orthodox shit and posting anti-islam/anti-LGBTQ+ diatribes on facebook, replying endlessly and at length to anyone who disagreed.
at a certain point, if arguing in defense of hot takes becomes its own end and if you're addicted to the conflict of arguing, you may not care how you get your fix.
Zizek found out that the originals were a metaphor for being trans and he still hasn't gotten over it. In this case, that appears to have worked out well for him.
Struggle session: if the matrix is a trans allegory, it’s a pretty lib trans allegory
But he fucking did that at the end of the movie when he jumped into agent smith and became gnostic Jesus. I think the fourth movie has him reject the status quo due to a mid life crisis, which is just cringe.
He spoke to his parallel universe self that did see the movie, asked him what he thought of it, and then wrote it down. This is a level 8 power, very impressive.
I did this for an essay on huckleberry finn in high-school and shitty teenage me thought it was the cleverest shit. Got a B though.
as Baudrillard himself of the matrix "i dont think they understood my ideas" or something.
Well that’s because the 1st matrix movie is just Plato’s allegory of the cave. It’s trite philosophy 101 shit that is fun but not that insightful.
The sequels, despite being much worse movies, had better philosophical messages. It’s too bad they chose to deliver them through boring exposition instead of exploring the ideas like in the 1st film
The point of Baudrillard is not that we live in a fake reality and we can just escape it to the real truth. It’s that it’s not clear there even exists a real truth, and that multiple layers of symbols and deceptions confuses us to the point of total disconnect from meaning. The later films show how Zion, the “truth” is also a fake manufactured reality and part of a cycle of deception. It’s shows that Neo escapes this cycle only through a contradiction in the system itself becoming too successful and entering a feedback loop (Agent Smith becoming viral). Neo didn’t defeat the Matrix, he saved it and changed it - he didn’t end the cycle he just altered it so that humans and robot struggle was resolved. It was a dialectical transcendence, not a total destruction of the “fake”
Well that’s because the 1st matrix movie is just Plato’s allegory of the cave. It’s trite philosophy 101 shit that is fun but not that insightful.
With Kung Fu fighting and slo-mo bullet time. You forgot that part. Sure the philosophy was banal but boy that Kung Fu fighting...those dudes were fast as lightning.
Oh this makes me want to watch the 2nd and 3rd movie. They looked terrible so i never bothered.
