come on in, the water's fake
the matrix, anyone?
Hrm, funny to find an article like this in the travel section and not the technology section.
"It's an idyllic vacation spot, but the best thing about it is that it takes less than five minutes to get there from anywhere in the world. In fact, you can reach it without ever leaving your home. That's because it exists not in any physical location but in one of the many virtual worlds that millions of people now travel to every day with the help of nothing more than a decent computer graphics card and a broadband Internet connection."
If you can't do it real life, do it in virtual reality, right? What a great way to stifle that last lingering spark of creative motivation to GET UP AND DO for those hooked in to their computers twenty hours a day. "Here, now you can be satiated without doing any work at all!"
As Arthur Miller says, "The good life itself is not the struggle for meaning, not the quest for union with the past, with God, with man that it traditionally was. The good life is the life of ceaseless entertainment, effortless joys, the air-conditioned, dust-free languor beyond the Musselman's most supine dream. Freedom is, after all, comfort; sexuality is a photograph. The enemy of it all is the real. The enemy is conflict. The enemy, in a word, is life." - The Bored and the Violent
Call me a purist, but when did people decide to fold on this thing called living? Getting your kicks in a virtual world sounds like selling out to me- selling out the toughness required to actually deal with life and settling instead for a picture of it. People are actually investing money in this stuff. Creating virtual businesses, virtual dance parties, virtual strippers. If you can have anything in the world at the click of a mouse then anything is worth nothing. Plug in, zone out, live happy.
Hrm, funny to find an article like this in the travel section and not the technology section.
"It's an idyllic vacation spot, but the best thing about it is that it takes less than five minutes to get there from anywhere in the world. In fact, you can reach it without ever leaving your home. That's because it exists not in any physical location but in one of the many virtual worlds that millions of people now travel to every day with the help of nothing more than a decent computer graphics card and a broadband Internet connection."
If you can't do it real life, do it in virtual reality, right? What a great way to stifle that last lingering spark of creative motivation to GET UP AND DO for those hooked in to their computers twenty hours a day. "Here, now you can be satiated without doing any work at all!"
As Arthur Miller says, "The good life itself is not the struggle for meaning, not the quest for union with the past, with God, with man that it traditionally was. The good life is the life of ceaseless entertainment, effortless joys, the air-conditioned, dust-free languor beyond the Musselman's most supine dream. Freedom is, after all, comfort; sexuality is a photograph. The enemy of it all is the real. The enemy is conflict. The enemy, in a word, is life." - The Bored and the Violent
Call me a purist, but when did people decide to fold on this thing called living? Getting your kicks in a virtual world sounds like selling out to me- selling out the toughness required to actually deal with life and settling instead for a picture of it. People are actually investing money in this stuff. Creating virtual businesses, virtual dance parties, virtual strippers. If you can have anything in the world at the click of a mouse then anything is worth nothing. Plug in, zone out, live happy.
posted by Joyce Mishaan at 9:34 AM
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