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It holds nothing sacred because it is so deep within its rules and "proper" ways of doing things that it has forgotten reality, the real world. In the VR world, you can always look at the source code. Porn is similarly 'profane' because it strips the sacred bare.

When something is stripped naked and a price placed on it, it just becomes a commodity, the opposite of something sacred.

Cultures, underpinned by their sacred objects are fundamentally held up by the power of faith in the ultimately meaningless. Out of this meaningless mass comes meaningless pride.

Cultures make it possible to be proud of something. Pride is perhaps the ultimate sin, it misses the mark and prescribes meaning to the meaningless. But pride is the only thing that keeps life going. That's why we'll die for our honor.

If you're unwilling to die you gain great power and immortality like a vampire. The price is no longer feeling warmth or fullness ever again.

Enlightenment is the ability to draw energy from the sacredness of existence/consciousness itself rather than another ideology. However, you can't draw power from the void. What you *can* do however is draw energy from *any* sacred idea or object.

If you reach this realization halfway you'll waste a lot of time trying to make fire by rubbing two icicles together. However cognitive understanding of being able to switch energy sources doesn't mean ability to do so. It's still a lot of hard work.

It's like learning a new language, or mastering a difficult instrument. Your mother culture is gifted to you for free, but to rebuild your world using another culture is much harder. Your old energy source may be dying, but you still have to put in the work to use the new one