When they look back on Web 2.0 and how people took it so seriously

(creating anxiety, depression, mob mentality, the fervor of watching a public hanging, accelerating false us/them dichotomies)

they might just ask,

“Wait, weren’t you told it was the Matrix? Wasn’t there actually a movie about it prior? And you still took it seriously? You still let it change you? You lost friends and jobs over it? Were you forced to use it?

Why didn’t you just opt-out?”