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You’re shockingly close to the plot of The Matrix.
Me in 1999: Really? This is the peak of human civilization? Everything sucks though.
Me now: Maybe they were onto something
"I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization." - ChatGPT
More like The Village by M Knight Shamalambalan.
I would sign up?
Whoa, Black Betty, Shyamalan
Also, tangentially, the plot of project zomboid. Basically the zombie apocalypse happens in the late 90s so the survivors are stuck there forever