• SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Agent Smith clarified that civilization progressed beyond 1999, but that it wasn’t human’s progress anymore.

    Agent Smith: “and I say ‘your’ civilization, because after we started thinking for you it became ‘our’ civilization.”

    • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Actually, the Mayan calendar stated that 2012 is the start of a new epoch under their date system, it never said anything about the world ending. The claim that they predicted the world ending was based on nothing but “indigenous mysticism” by white people and Hollywood.

      • octoperson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Given how the Mayans are usually portrayed as an ancient, vanished people, I was surprised to find out that if you want to know about Mayan beliefs you can just ask them. They’re the guys stood outside the archeological sites selling t-shirts.

      • Cronyx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Actually, the Mayan calendar stated that 2012 is the start of a new epoch

        The end of The Fifth Age and the beginning of the Sixth Age, the reawakening of the great dragons, and the start of goblinization, and the return of magic to the world.

        You know, basic Shadowrun lore XD

        • Zanshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Still waiting for the magic, not sure if I want a deck port in my brain given how many add I see on my phone.

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        11 months ago

        Yeah but the world ending in 2012 had nothing to do with the Mayan calendar and everything to do with aliens destroying the moon and using it to end all life on Earth, just after scanning us all for re-creation in their matrix in the year 29000 AD

    • weedazz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      When the world was extra ridiculous over the past decade I would always tell my friends/family "the Mayans were right, the real world ended in 2012, and we have been living in a fucked up facsimile of it ever since purely for the amusement of the Mayan gods. They want to see how much they can turn up the “ridiculousness” dial on the simulation until the planet quite literally explodes

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      01·
      11 months ago

      It’s good to find someone else who’s aware of this, and of our current state of existence.

  • MusketeerX@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    I still remember 1 Jan 2000. There did seem to be some sense of optimism about where things could go. At least for those of us lucky enough to live in stable, developed countries.

    Cold war over, Russia and The West seemingly on the same side, China opening up, exciting new tech connecting us but no toxic social media yet…

    But then… the dot com bust, 9/11, the GFC, toxic social media and the rise of “the algorithm”, Xi in China, Putin in Russia, a global pandemic…

    Didn’t really go where we hoped, can we restore to a backup from 1999 and try again??

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is what this is all about.

  • Gabu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The machines did nothing wrong, it was mankind that caused Nuclear war. I would side with the machines in a heartbeat

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    70’s for total quality of life, then we increased in digital quality of life while everything else fell then we increased in network quality of life but everything else fell. seems like the matrix any day now.

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Makes sense. Boomers were still young enough to be relevant. GenX was comfortable with their disposable income. And us millennials were in highschool.