When The Matrix came out in the last year of the last century, it broke our minds. The perfect mix of occidental and oriental philosophy wrapped in Goth motifs with unimaginable kickass action made audiences everywhere question their reality. It became so ingrained in popular culture that when landlines started disappearing, people wondered if we were stuck in The Matrix, because that was the only way to teleport out of the simulation and back into the real world. While we might not be stuck in The Matrix, we certainly are stuck somewhere, or at least our minds are. Not in a fabricated digital illusion, but in the endless quagmire of never-ending content. René Descartes once said: “I think, therefore I am.” A more honest update for our age would be: “I scroll, therefore I am… stuck.”

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