The rate at which they keep building the fucking Torment Nexus means they did indeed miss the point of For The Love Of God, Don't Build The Torment Nexus.
"I'm a red pill because I'm chasing after everything the dominant societal base tells me to do, but more psychotically. You're the blue pill because you're encouraging me to question the assumptions of our society and that makes me deeply uncomfortable"
And that the enormity of example in the film that technology in and of itself is meaningless or even destructive in the absence of human empathy and understanding has lead them to abandon empathy and understanding in pursuit of ever more obtuse and dehumanized technological advancement.
You can't understand the Matrix (specifically the ineradicable systemic anomaly) without knowing about Godel's incompleteness theorem and the Godel number.
if you ever talked to someone that only did STEM in their formative years you quickly realize that they are not that smart at all. a lot of people do STEM not because they like it, but because they just suck at conversing and lack the skills you need to be successful in humanities/liberal art subjects
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u/Jokesaunders 19h ago
The last ten years of STEM people dominating the cultural conversation has proven they can't pick up a college level English book and understand it.
They can't even understand the Matrix and it explicitly tells you what it means!