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Unfortunately I think most people want the "escape" of these digital worlds. To them (and others), it's easier to live inside of dream world than fix the current one.


If you think about it, it's indeed easier to start from scratch and create a new digital world than to fix the current one. The current world depends on far too many people


Yes it's easier to keep hitting a pleasure switch, especially if you have a brain of a rat.


Rats actually prefer the real world to a boring cage with a lever.


the problem, of course, manifests when you, who is content with the real world, has the digital world forced upon you because that's where "everyone" else is

"you will eat the b^H^H wear the headset"




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