05-07-2019, 11:15 AM
If your electricity is cut off, then virtual reality is no longer available. Batteries are not cheap, in case one thinks of those as an alternative. When the virtual world collapses, the real one dominates. The real one can force people to do what isn't so attractive, like farm labor for nothing more than three meals and a cot in barracks.
You may love to play "Empire Builder" as a video game, but your success in building a virtual empire means nothing should you starve or die of exposure.
You may love to play "Empire Builder" as a video game, but your success in building a virtual empire means nothing should you starve or die of exposure.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.