Has technology provided the uber-rich and powerful another opiate for the masses? Just as morphine deadens pain, technology deadens suffering and provides people with pleasant illusions of life inside a little screen.

Did The Matrix begin as a little escape that turned into the all-time monster enslaver? And now, we have a tech-bro who loves ketamine, running our effing government, and one step away from the nuclear button.

OMG, the Matrix’s Wizard of Oz was not AI, a person, or aliens. It was some human brain gone haywire.

Hurry, please, someone, give me a pail of water and I will throw it.

“Ohhh! You cursed brat!

Look what you've done! I'm melting! Melting!

Oh, what a world! What a world!

Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness! Ohhh! Look out! Look out! I'm going! Ohhhh - Ohhhhhhhhhh!”

PS Great piece David, really, really good.