The western world today thoroughly resembles a game. There's only a handful of things that people do that connect them to the real world mainly by flattening their consciousness so it's really in the moment.
Most of the "culture wars" nonsense that goes on reminds me of Dungeons and Dragons or LARPing. Almost all the disputes in the culture wars take place over completely imaginary topics, or over some academic's ramblings. Some people can spend their entire life in that realm of consciousness and never even know there are other realms.
If you've ever played dungeons and dragons, you know what it means to achieve that shared-hallucination state of consciousness. The entry and exit into that mindset is a very subtle. Is that the day-to-day state of nearly everyone in the western world? Is it a shared hallucination of a gamified world?
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