<story><title>The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the &apos;Rats of NIMH&apos;</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rglovejoy</author><text>&amp;quot;Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.&amp;quot; - Agent Smith</text></comment>
<story><title>The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the &apos;Rats of NIMH&apos;</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwanem</author><text>&amp;gt; But the public held on hard to his earlier work—as Ramsden and Adams put it, &amp;quot;everyone want[ed] to hear the diagnosis, no one want[ed] to hear the cure.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Was&lt;/i&gt; there a &amp;quot;cure&amp;quot;? The article speaks of the fashion in which his later efforts attempted to alleviate the catastrophic social problems he&amp;#x27;d observed in his earlier utopian designs. It is craftily silent on the subject of those efforts&amp;#x27; results.</text></comment>