Maybe we are living in a simulation. Not even necessarily that the entire system is simulated, just that all of the parts and components are simulated.
Politicians simulate the personality most people will support, and then their policies simulate what people will tolerate. When we get sick of that, we'll turn on the TV that shows people simulating interesting characters in a plot that simulates what the producers think we want to see. It's naturally interrupted by by ads that simulate the lifestyle we should want in order to get us to buy their stuff. Then we whip out our credit cards and buy things using a digital transaction that simulates physical currency that simulates the exchange of labour, time, and expertise. We then use our new possession to simulate a version of ourselves that we think other people will like. Blah, blah, something about 'the masks we all wear' concept that seem to get all the Fine Arts students weak in the knees.
Does anything even exist?
-Cril
If they weren't there we would have created them
Maybe, it's true
But I'm resentful all the same
Someone's got to take the blame
I know that this is vitriol
No solution, spleen-venting
But I feel better having screamed
Don't you?
R.E.M - Ignoreland
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