Remember back in 1999, when you saw The Matrix, and it was all cool, and you were stoned like “DUUUUDE, WHAT IF WE’RE IN THE MATRIX RIGHT NOW??? HOW WOULD WE KNOW??? WHOOOAAAA!!!”
And then 25 years passed, and you’re too busy talking about…
gestures wildly to everything
…all this?
Yeah. Still in the matrix. Life doesn’t make sense, unless you realize this is all one user fucking around with the code.
First he removes all the payphones. Then he just asks the question “I wonder how we can make things even dumber…”, and finally he increases the absurdity to max levels because it makes him laugh at the suffering.
Oh my god, I know who’s running the simulation…
"Hey there, it’s Josh. We’re checking out The Matrix today! I heard this Earth place has some really stupid AI, so it’s time for NEW GAME!!!
Another view of it is if people mostly know you through remote-working, social media, computer games etc., then the “digital you” is something with non-physics rules that you can adapt analogously to the matrix.