Game-ified Reality and Covid

Covid is the latest in a long line of "scams". I think a better name than scam is "game". Most of our human life, especially in developed countries, is really a game version of reality. People piss their entire life away on a series of stupid delusions: "a career", money is real, religion, patriotism, etc... All of that stuff is a form of mass hysteria. Placing undue value on luxury goods is a great example of this distortion of reality, e.g. "diamonds are valuable".

The people who live outside these games and delusions are deemed insane. A guy like Johnny Appleseed, for example, is cited as a crank weirdo, or a person like Richard Proenneke is cited as extreme or mal-adjusted to the fraud/game.

The novel thing about the covid scam is so many people see it's a fraud. We were born into the patriotism game in the USA, so don't see it's a scam. We don't see the fake Roman and Greek and Egyptian style buildings in Washington as a con-man's ruse. To us, they were there "forever". The people living at the time of the revolution, though, realized it was just another government. The Whiskey Rebellion is one proof of that.