I'm not an expert, I just watched Matrix once and recently, but I'm a political philosopher and I noted that Matrix is strongly libertarian. Do you think the same?
(You can look at issues like: State doesn't exist; They control us, they lei us, they give us false goods to give us false illusion and false feelings; to free our mind; We accept this to be happy; Ignorance make happy; ecc)

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Originally Posted by liblib I'm not an expert, I just watched Matrix once and recently, but I'm a political philosopher and I noted that Matrix is strongly libertarian. Do you think the same? (You can look at issues like: State doesn't exist; They control us, they lei us, they give us false goods to give us false illusion and false feelings; to free our mind; We accept this to be happy; Ignorance make happy; ecc)

Considering there is an active police force, I would hesitate to affirm the suggestion that a state does not exist - unless one were to argue in Zion, where I would argue that the Council of Elders, as well as the hierarchy in the ships can not be commensurated with a stateless view.
Further, I would hesitate to brand the notion of 'They control us', which seems more closely related to paranoid-schizophrenia than political science - let alone philosophy - and, indeed, libertarianism.
As for lei, I fear I have I'm not sure I understand the relationship between libertarianism, the Matrix, and flower-necklaces.
As for the Quasi-Orwellian suggestions, I do not recognise them in the Matrix. I will admit that it is ambiguous, but then so is a sperm stain on the wall. Oddly enough, that does seem quite related to both the Matrix and libertarianism.

Mr U

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