Metaverse Will Happen (TA)
Something needs to control you. Not someone, especially never someone you actually know, but something. Something with so much power that it is beyond your sole ability to act on and thus out of your responsibility — but absolutely has the ability to act on you and others.
For example: We have given the state power in order that they give us legal contracts and we have given the media power in order that they give us social ones. So we can be told to [not] act a certain way and make sure others do the same.
Whether those legal and social contracts reflect the opinions and/or desires of the majority of the democracy is moot; the significance comes from the power to enforce at all.
To the reader: do you have quarrels with any of the established legal and social contracts that your are exposed to? Yes you do. Something angers you.
Let me say immediately that this is fine. This is what creates “progress”. Anger is energy that can be applied the right way to produce action. You probably won’t act, but you could and that is all anyone can ever do.
When you pretend you’re going to act, what do you come up with?
You could try to establish a majority belief in your opinion, and shift the status quo through the currently established systems. This is a good one because you can always delay/blame the system/oppressors for your failure.
Legal and social contracts can vary based on geographical location; you can always move where your beliefs are best represented. But this still doesn’t let you pick and choose; you have to take the entirety of the contracts that region comes with. And moving is annoying. You shouldn’t have to move, this is your geographical location!
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The Metaverse is your answer to ultimate freedom. The Metaverse is your new enforcer, that lets you pick and choose the majority for every belief. It challenges your own beliefs… just enough to remind you that you are still smarter than the other people… but never too much to cause you to think about anything that hasn’t already been thought for you.
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Augmented reality or virtual reality, the Metaverse will remove the physical limits to ideologies and cultures, to “knowledge”, once again.
But don’t forget this: it isn’t expansion, it is restriction.
In this infinite universe, you aren’t making light travel faster, you are condensing the space it must travel. There aren’t more thinkers like you, you just see less of the ones that think unalike you.
The gain is only relative to the loss.