An illustration of a virus
By Peter Schulte profile image Peter Schulte
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A disease

It is not just outrage, despair, and hatred of others. It is not just fear. It is self-loathing. We are disgusted by ourselves.

In the 1999 film The Matrix, Agent Smith tries to break the spirit of a captured Morpheus by convincing him that humanity isn’t worth saving. He describes humanity itself as a virus, destroying everything in its path, unable to live in harmony with the world around it.

“Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure,” he says.

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