1/ Let's put this tweet at the tail end of a typical millennial's exposure to the idea that either sufficiently advanced technology or magic systems orchestrate the true, obscured reality.https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/992891529852108800 …
5/ Example: How many people comment / participate in political stories with "LOL, simulation," when the most reasonable response would be, "THIS IS FUCKED UP AND UNACCEPTABLE."
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6/ I get the LOLSimulation impulse. (I do it too.) It's humor to bleed the pressure on the wildly escalating absurdity of reality. But, it also detrimentally misidentifies the source of the strange: Culture, history, and human nature can build the most Byzantine of environments.
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7/ ...but we can also at least strive to build better ones.
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