“[Simulationism creates] a kind of lassitude through acceptance that could be exploited. There were few better ways of knocking the fight out of people than by convincing them that life was a joke” —Iain M. Banks in Surface Detail
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Just as easily, "life is a joke" can lead people to reject rules and expectation.
Which way it breaks is an exercise left to the perceiver.



