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WAKING THE DREAD

“The world is unliveable...but we have to continue. That’s the kind of everyday heroism we have to try and find in ourselves”

Released in 1999, made literal a well-worn philosophical belief—the world around us is only a simulation. In one of its most iconic scenes, Neo, a messiah for the internet age, is asked to choose between two pills, one blue and the other red. While the blue pill would allow him to forever live in blissful ignorance, the red pill offers realisation, an

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