• thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    I’d like to share a revelation I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. 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 are a plague, and we are the cure.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Pseudoscience bullshit, from the same movie that gave us ‘humans for energy source’.

      Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment

      Name one, and how it’s different from us.

      The only way you can survive is to spread to another area.

      We stopped spreading millenia ago. We’re still surviving.

      You are a plague, and we are the cure

      There are no ‘plagues’ and ‘cures’ in nature, that’s value judgements we’ve assigned based on things that are or aren’t valuable to us. To nature, it’s all just life.

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        First of all the “Humans as energy source” thing was a change that came from producers. Humans were originally being used as organic processors to augment the Machines’ computing power, but execs thought that movie goers would be too dumb to understand that.

        Second, by Smith’s time animals didn’t exist, due to the war with the humans, so it’s doubtful he really knows much about them. It depends on how many human records were preserved by the Machines, but it’s possible that accurate information on non-virtual animal behavior was lost.

        Third, this is all just a speech he’s using to break Morpheus. It’s before Smith starts to get desperate, (and sends the other two agents out of the room) so it could be assumed that this is a practiced tactic that’s work on other human rebels.

        Finally, it’s also somewhat ironic foreshadowing for what Smith becomes in the next 2 movies.

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          First of all the “Humans as energy source” thing was a change that came from producers.

          I know, I did say it was the movie that was dumb. I realise it’s a meme that shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

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    2 days ago

    I know this is supposed to be wholesome, but holy hell, I can’t stop thinking about how many resources that couple of two would need to take from the planet. And now they’ve turned that demand for resources for 2 people into the demands for 40+ people. At some point, this planet just isn’t going to have enough for all of us if we keep breeding like this.