Ethics of the Matrix

On consumerism, individualism, and the insufficiency of relativism.

Do you want to know what it is, Neo?

It's that feeling you have had all your life. That feeling that something was wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad, driving you to me. But what is it?^[1]

In an unnamed future, Neo, a computer programmer by day and hacker by night, goes through the…