i can’t remember what he said but i just remember i agreed with him about what humanity was,
he was a program that was there to keep the ‘program’ under control so that we were blind to the actual reality of the facts (human batteries)
but mr smith stated that humans were a scourge on the earth and that they devour and consume everything until there is nothing left and he likened us humans to a virus, i think he said the earth was sick because of us and i actually agree with him.
its not our fault but there is good and bad in this world and it looks like the bad is winning
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I can remember relating to that scene as well…in fact that’s the only scene that sticks out to me in thinking about that movie.
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this is the exact quote-
Agent Smith: I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure.
it sounds cruel but i do actually see a lot of truth in what he is saying even though he is a bad guy in the film
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@pansdisease if you lived in the matrix it would be a delusion, your entire life would not be real.
that stuff sounds neat but its like a game of second life really haha
but i wish i could be helpful to humanity in some way but it seems like i just run with the crowd, i am grateful for the meds though but i am a consumer, i haven’t once helped my environment and i wouldn’t know how, how can we live in natural equilibrium?
I lived on a 90 acre therapeutic farming community out in the lakes and mountains, we were about 45% self sufficient, this was the closest I’ve got to living in a balanced environment. But there was of course inequality, a good many of us didn’t want to be there but got blackmailed into it by their family, the doctor who breezed through once a month was a jackass I still see in the playing of stereotypical tyrants in movies to this day, that’s him. But as out of my mind as I was I loved the work, I worked hard, ate well and dated all the wrong people. Got into the best shape of my life, I imagine that if we weren’t so numerous and that we lived in such communities we may have an equilibrium, I mean like not so much the “therapeutic” part, but the small community oriented…well…community.
The best I’ve helped my environment is making an impact on others around me (I used to be a terror of my surroundings but at that same time I lent true friendship to anyone with whom that seemed to just happen. I’ve been blamed for misleading and isolating my old friends, but none of this was intentional, my intentions were good and in a way I was even more naive then they.
that sounds tough living off the land, i reckon maybe a farmer would be closest but they still need to produce for the consumers, seems like a vicious circle there- producer-consumer, consumer- producer they got to pay bills like us, unless they live in a self sufficient house that produces its own electricity and tech moves towards that fast, idk hopefully in the future we won’t consume everything and just live in harmony.
Actually what Smith says is completely unscientific, viruses evolve not to destroy hosts but to replicate and spread efficiently with as little damage to the host as possible. Most of the time when we have a virus that is very dangerous to humans that is because it comes from a strain of viruses that can’t infect humans (it infects other animals) but then it mutates and just happens to be very damaging in the new host. The result is both that the virus will evolve to be less damaging to the new host and that the new hosts get resistance, viruses however evolve much faster than humans so one can expect the virus to become less damaging before humans become resistant.
And I think that is an important thing to remember, in nature the only constant is change - so while it may be true that while we are currently living in a culture that is destroying its foundations (the host), any culture like that is selected against in the long term.
In the short time we live our lives we tend to think of certain parts of human society as unchanging, static - but you don’t have to go back very far to see that the way people live has been radically different and that for most of our evolutionary history we have managed to stay in the game by adapting to our environment.
Also an important thing to note is that change usually is not a matter of choice but of necessity. And that usually means refusing to change would lead to either violence or death.