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Men In Matrix
Aug. 16th, 2017 12:04 amSetting: Waterfront park in New York. The bench faces the ocean.
Camera focuses on the profile of a distinguished, older man, wearing black suit and tie, speaks.
Agent K:Humans, for the most part, don't have a clue. They don't want one or need one, either. They're happy, they think they have a... good bead on things.
The other person from off camera.: Why the secrecy? People can be smart, certainly enough to adapt to a new normal.
Agent K: A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the earth was flat.
Other person: That is a modern myth. The size and shape of the earth had been mathematically verified thousands of years prior.
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Camera focuses on the profile of a distinguished, older man, wearing black suit and tie, speaks.
Agent K:Humans, for the most part, don't have a clue. They don't want one or need one, either. They're happy, they think they have a... good bead on things.
The other person from off camera.: Why the secrecy? People can be smart, certainly enough to adapt to a new normal.
Agent K: A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the earth was flat.
Other person: That is a modern myth. The size and shape of the earth had been mathematically verified thousands of years prior.
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