" The esoteric philosophy of The Matrix made sense to people not because audiences were starting to understand the newness of the internet. It made sense to people because it was an exaggerated depiction of a televised hyperreality that had been building upon itself for the previous fifty years. A van explodes and a building collapses. A man and a woman disagree about events that happened to them both. A killer in a white vehicle drives to nowhere, as a form of entertainment. Teenagers murder teenagers and no one knows why. What is real? How do you define real? There was a spoon, and there was no spoon, and the only difference was how much you cared. "

― Chuck Klosterman , The Nineties