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The punchline, "Go away," just seals the deal: it's how most of us might react to a hallucination questioning our state of being. We can relate. We like the simple-mindedness of mirror man's response. We can feel the insecurity in his voice. We laugh. There's your lecture in YTMNDology, folks.

Predictable, maybe (I personally didn't see it coming), but you can't deny that Morpheus was still a brilliant choice. My whole point is that the punchline itself isn't as interchangeable as you might think.

Yes and jumping on the bandwagon is so uncool and we'll never be invited to the cool kids' table but when you watch a movie and someone says that the dutch angle technique was overused and really took away from the scenes because they're always tilted for no apparent reason and you happen to agree with said statement and then other movies adapt the same overused technique and overuse it just the same and you now know what to call that technique, you will call that technique the dutch angle...

phenomenon in one context you will likely see it in any other context you see it in and develop an opinion on it in each context and in general. And, again, this opinion may be in line with the person who introduced you to the phenomenon's opinion at which point you will, whether justified or not, be called a bandwagoner or if your opinion differs you will automatically become a cynic or a rebel or whatever it is. But, in reality, it all comes down to If it speaks/ And you can hear/ You should be listening

And, seeing as it's not that important, really, I'd rather maintain a healthy level of skepticism, take people's statements as the statements they feel like making, and move on. Perhaps everyone you think is a bandwagoner is actually mocking the position you think they are holding. Who really knows? All I know is that the words say what they say, and while they may look similar to other people's words, that doesn't mean that they don't mean them, or mean them in jest.

I think what you may be seeing Carib, is that people are starting to realize how fast fads are getting abused. True, it really hasn't happened with this site (it is only the second one). In the good old days (last year) fads could be around for a few months and still be funny. Now everyone wants to jump on the band wagon and fads are ran into the ground in days or in hours.

Who said I was impressed by Morpheus's lines? I just think it's funny that they seemed to fly right over David's head. Maybe it's the fact that I've never seen The Matrix that makes this site so fresh for me.

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