I think that it is only old weirdos from my generation or older who have been able to resist this crap, as it holds no interest for us. I agree young people and all future generations are doomed.
Individuals wiill be faced with a new temptation: To live in the simulation.
Though, in some sense, this not a new temptation at all... It's a completion of the original temptation—the fundamental archetype—of living in a world where "My will be done" as opposed to "Thy (God's) Will be done."
I think that it is only old weirdos from my generation or older who have been able to resist this crap, as it holds no interest for us. I agree young people and all future generations are doomed.
I hope you’re right RE some holding out, however, that anyone could succumb should be a five alarm fire because of behavioral contagion and mimesis.
Individuals wiill be faced with a new temptation: To live in the simulation.
Though, in some sense, this not a new temptation at all... It's a completion of the original temptation—the fundamental archetype—of living in a world where "My will be done" as opposed to "Thy (God's) Will be done."
Amen. There’s a reason why the lowest level of hell is ice in Dante’s Inferno.