End Times

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Ephirith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think about that throwaway line in The Matrix (1999) about how the Matrix itself is set at the peak of our civilization far... far more than I should.

Like sometimes it feels like too perfect a synchronicity to be anything other than a blossoming fractal arm of our own simulation. It makes sense thematically that we'd kick off the transition from that age into this one with something like Y2k, and a sense of mass doom and foreboding.

Was America, the only important country, at its cultural peak in 1999?