It’s very clear that Andrew Tate and other “redpill” influencers of his ilk didn’t understand The Matrix (or maybe didn’t even watch it) it they think that escaping the Matrix means living a life of luxury and fame. They got it exactly backwards.
Escaping the Matrix in the movie means living a life of hardship and discomfort. But it’s a life that is full of genuine experiences and connections that aren’t designed to exploit you.
To hammer the point even more, the motivation of the traitor character is to live a life of luxury and fame inside the Matrix, not caring that it’s fake.
the fact that this doesn’t mention that 1. the song is called “the old dope peddler” and that 2. lehrer’s other songs range from delights like “the masochism tango” and “poisoning pigeons in the park” to a catchy theme tune for the myth of Oedipus to celebrations of plagiarism in math academia and a series of jokes about the folk song “Clementine” as written by various classical composers, not to mention The Elements Song, is unforgivable.
lehrer is also a math genius who entered Harvard at 15 and may or may not have invented the jello shot. eventually he got bored of performing music and went back to teaching math. as of May 2021 he’s 93 and still kicking around in California.
As of July, 2025, he has outlived Ozzy Osbourne and is 97 years old.
Geologists claim it’s because the earlier Cenozoic used to be called the Tertiary, but that’s just a ruse to hide the secret third geologic period, between the Neogene and the Quaternary, that they won’t tell us about.
““The fact that CBS didn’t try to save their No. 1 rated late-night franchise that’s been on the air for over three decades is part of what’s making everybody wonder,” Stewart said. “Was this purely financial, or maybe the path of least resistance for your $8bn merger?” “If you believe — as corporations or as networks — that you can make yourselves so innocuous that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the boy king’s radar … Why would anyone watch you? And you are fucking wrong.””
ALT