Second-Best Life: Real Virtuality
Born of military research and the entertainment industry, Virtual Reality depends on us for its projected role throughout society. Real virtuality will be the norm when it infects various spheres, but only with our active consent. Wittgenstein felt that “it is not absurd e.g. to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity.”
Centuries ago, European states for the most part had been divided along ethnic borders. France was wherever the French lived, and Germany was wherever the Germans lived, and so on. But what about the French Jew or the German Jew? Did they not belong to France and Germany? Anti-Semites said no, and Zionists concurred.
Recent developments make an all-encompassing crisis plain to see. Society could scarcely be more bizarrely unhealthy, but is getting even more so all the time. With two million people behind bars, kids as young as two are on behavior control drugs like Ritalin. Sunset magazine carries pages of ads for “boot camps.” “Got an angry child?” “Defiant teen?”
So much force, fraud, and intrigue have been, and are, dominating the international arena, that the concepts like trust and confidence among the various nations are almost impossible to think of. So why do morals have so little impact on mutual relationship between nations?
The Option Inflation:
Cost of the Freedom to Choose
What happens when you have too many possibilities? Let's say you are eighteen years old and you think about your future profession. You have all those options, and no one is going to tell you what you should and what you shouldn't do.
Making decisions for others is never easy. Let us consider the plight of the gods. When you are below them, bending to their will, they seem all-powerful, but when you view things from their perspective, they are just as constrained as you are.
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