u/Spaghetti_salad_wine

The Matrix has been claimed as a metaphor just about everything societal or political but I think the true “Matrix” is just the internet.

The internet is very literally a fake world, a cheap simulation of real life. Sure people know the internet isn’t real objectively but emotionally, many people are as affected by the web as real life and arguably spend more free time on it than living life.

You can’t really choose not to use the internet but you can choose not to “live” here when you could be doing something else instead. That is the true red/pill blue pill decision, except the real world is a lot less dystopian than the simulation.

(English isn’t my first language sorry)

You can’t believe how much not being on Reddit has improved my life. I spent about a year and a half on this website and thought most of my experiences on this website were pretty fun and positive, with some mean/negative experience thrown in. I’ve come to regret almost all of my experiences, including the “positive” ones because I’ve realized that I could’ve spent that time experiencing real life instead of winning stupid internet debates and earning nonsense internet points.

Also, there’s no ignoring the paranoid and angry culture that pervades this site. Even if you try to stick to the better corners of this site, you still run into it. You can’t have an honest discussion about modern life or politics without people saying the world is literally ending. I didn’t think I had absorbed any of this ridiculous negativity but realized I had as I became less pessimistic after leaving this site. I’m less socially anxious and worried people will judge me now that I’m not on a site where socially anxious people are always judging other people.

Leave Reddit today

(Ps delete everything first :)