Morpheus: Globalization "is the world that
has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth"
Agent Smith: "There is a difference
between knowing the path and walking the path": While productivity doubled
over the past 40 years and the world's total wealth quadrupled (see "Who Benefited..."), real
wages for western manufacturing workers have stayed below their 1973 peak,
after growing exponentially for the previous 30 years! (chart)
Morpheus: "What you
know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that
there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's
there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad"
Neo: Well, guess
what? I know what it is! We produce $17 trillion in annual GDP, while our $60
trillion (total) debt grows exponentially, hiding
that we've never really benefited from globalization's amazing productivity
gains, we've only become addicted to debt-driven consumption for the benefit of
our Matrix slave masters!
Cypher: "You know what I realized?
[Takes a bite of steak],Ignorance is bliss"
Agent Smith: "Do you
hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability"
