The Matrix (Movie Fan-Fiction)

Ethan and Evan are government recruits who're assigned to secure vital worldly labyrinths during the frightening Coronavirus global quarantine!

Here's a pertinent and fun Coronavirus quarantine parable inspired by the new age chic American sci-fi masterpiece "The Matrix" [1999]. Thanks for reading (signing off),


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Ethan and Evan were telemarketing surfers in California when the Coronavirus pandemic arrived in the year 2020. Ethan and Evan enjoyed spending time outdoors on weekends in sunny California surfing the ocean and playing amateur golf. They were proud of their handsome surf boards and cool golf gloves. They loved the California outdoors. When the global Coronavirus pandemic came and created forced quarantine, Ethan and Evan were forced to work from home and stay indoors almost all the time. They started to truly miss their days surfing and golfing and their boards and gloves. Now, Ethan and Evan spent the majority of their time staying indoors to play video-games on their Microsoft Xbox and working through their telemarketing company with an Interest terminal. Everything was indoors now, even in sunny and bright California.

The world was going through trying changes leading up to the Coronavirus quarantine. The anti-globalization terrorism confounding new age capitalism rhetoric (e.g., 9/11) worried everyone about the quality of consumerism and its worldwide appeal after the World Trade Center was destroyed by Al Quaeda. New developments in communications and global wireless networking and information exchange created new concerns about espionage and corruption, leading to the formation and development of WikiLeaks and the NSA cyber-division. Meanwhile, the super-terrorist groups ISIS and Cobra rose to sudden power. All of these complexities made the new world feel like a choking machinated labyrinth.

Ethan and Evan were indoors playing a maze-runner video-game one Saturday afternoon when they got a strange email requesting they meet with an underground NSA operative named David. Ethan and Evan put on their face-masks and trekked to the Starbucks shop nearby where David waited for them. To their horror, David explained to Ethan and Evan that the new machinated labyrinth was fraught with frailty and holes being exploited by not only hackers and terrorists but also corrupt social leaders around the world. These vulnerabilities would make it challenging for governments to use natural infrastructures to facilitate the resource and fund assistance programs created during the Coronavirus pandemic to deliver supplies, news, and communications to people around the world. Ethan and Evan realized they were being drafted by the government to deal with these problems.

ETHAN: Why'd they mark us, brother?
EVAN: We're skilled with computers, anonymous, and agile!
ETHAN: We'd be tackling a macro-monster monolith like flies.
EVAN: This is Biblical, brother!
ETHAN: How should we do this, man?
EVAN: We'll scramble Cobra algorithms and detonate a Cobra silo.
ETHAN: We must remain covert, brother.
EVAN: No one will even know we were knights.

Ethan and Evan became the two matrix superheroes and gave themselves the aliases Daredevil and Deadpool. Daredevil/Deadpool thought of ways to make the Ivy League of American colleges/universities invulnerable to the threat of anti-democracy terrorism so that quarantined citizens would feel secure knowing that sacred institutions were still considered immune from the danger of new age hackers. Daredevil/Deadpool also wanted to scramble Cobra school algorithms so that young terrorist recruits would feel anxious about infiltrating American education. Daredevil/Deadpool called their unique anti-terrorism crusade Mission Columbia. Would they succeed in forging bridges to secured quarantine-time capitalism?

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)