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"We are the first digital inhabitants of a universe of pure symbolic media exchange, living in an empty space of virtuality, where subjectivity and objective truth have intertwined together."

And, it's quite clear that 'we' were not prepared at all to deal with the enormous changes and departures from our need to have authenticity and critical thinking as our lighthouse. In a few short years, the reality that we once knew has been swept away and replaced with a simulation that confuses, intimidates, confounds and exasperates.

It is 'here' that the wicked, greedy and dangerous humans prosper; they have allied and are enjoying what appears to be unlimited power.

Giddy with the 'success' of the last few years will see these sociopaths keep advancing the rheostat of their wondrous digital beasts that they foolishly believe is under their control. Many will have only conformity as their option; believing that we are entering a new and better age on Earth. Many, though. will trust their highly evolved instincts and turn away from a system that promises such grandeur but displays everything that makes humanity 'ugly'. Prepare for the showdown as it must and will occur!

https://tottnews.com/2022/11/21/the-era-of-the-hyperreal/

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I have a couple of those books including the Baudrillard one about HyperReality. Perfectly describes what Modernity has turned into with technology. It’s created a secondary layer of Reality that seems almost realer than real.

Serial Experiments Lain is a short 90’s cyberpunk Animé that masterfully captures what technology induced social alienation

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