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The Matrix at twenty: How the sci-fi gamechanger remains influential

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Tags: science fiction, usa, the matrix, anniversaries, retrospective, history, 1990s, franchises.film, author.scott tobias, source.the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/28/the-matrix-20th-anniversary-sci-fi-game-changer

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Authors
Scott Tobias
Published
Mar 28 2019
Word count
1015 words

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  1. stephen
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    Isn't this what Manufacturing Consent is all about though? What is the lesson of the Texas State Board of Education textbook controversy? Is the premise "everything you know is sanitized...

    When you can persuade someone that their assumptions and perceptions are wrong – that everything they know is sanitized propaganda – they can then see things through an entirely new lens, one helpfully provided by the red-piller

    Isn't this what Manufacturing Consent is all about though? What is the lesson of the Texas State Board of Education textbook controversy? Is the premise "everything you know is sanitized propaganda" not so far from reality?

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  2. dblohm7
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    Fuck, I'm old.

    Fuck, I'm old.

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