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Agent Smith Meme Explained: “Yet You Participate in the Matrix” and the Philosophy of the Status Quo
By Markus Uehleke
The Agent Smith meme borrows the punchline of a 2016 comic: anyone who criticises a system while living inside it must be a hypocrite. Economists have measured the urge to keep things as they are since 1988, and the theorist whose book appears in the film found it embarrassing. Is the gotcha clever, or loss aversion?