I mean it's not an idea that implies everything is ok, it's a functionally neutral proposition. It's basically the techbro way of saying "yeah but this could all be a dream dude."
Like yes, it could. But like, so? There was never any guarantee of an external reality in the first place, that doesn't mean you just check out of life.
It's an idea that lets the middle class be ok with everything not being ok - "Gosh, things sure are crazy! Like a buggy computer simulation, you never know what will happen next. I half expect Representative Silly Name to clip through the floor! And the McDonalds cashier just gave the exact same greeting to everyone who walked through the door - like a glitch in The Matrix!"
Meanwhile, Senator Silly Name has just introduced legislation to classify drone strike data till the end of time, and the McCashier is trying to balance a six day work week and chronic insomnia.
Think it's more an avenue than a cause. Solipsistic self-obsession and observation of the absurdity of the world as random is always the case for individualistic people who benefit from the organized violence of the world but do not wish to acknowledge it. Now they just say it's a computer instead of a gnostic puzzle. It does piss me off though because it fundamentally doesn't make more sense than not. Assume there's a layer over us that's more complex, that changes nothing because I'll never perceive it. We're still just as real in any meaningful sense as we would be if there was nothing above us, laws dictate our lives whether programmed by random luck of the draw, God, or some nerd with a universe coder. I feel from a set list whether set by evolution or some artist. Assume there's a layer of the same complexity, then this is identical to that level and we're just as real as they are.
I mean it's not an idea that implies everything is ok, it's a functionally neutral proposition. It's basically the techbro way of saying "yeah but this could all be a dream dude."
Like yes, it could. But like, so? There was never any guarantee of an external reality in the first place, that doesn't mean you just check out of life.
It's an idea that lets the middle class be ok with everything not being ok - "Gosh, things sure are crazy! Like a buggy computer simulation, you never know what will happen next. I half expect Representative Silly Name to clip through the floor! And the McDonalds cashier just gave the exact same greeting to everyone who walked through the door - like a glitch in The Matrix!"
Meanwhile, Senator Silly Name has just introduced legislation to classify drone strike data till the end of time, and the McCashier is trying to balance a six day work week and chronic insomnia.
I don't know comrade, it kind of sounds like you're making up people to get mad at
Perhaps!
Think it's more an avenue than a cause. Solipsistic self-obsession and observation of the absurdity of the world as random is always the case for individualistic people who benefit from the organized violence of the world but do not wish to acknowledge it. Now they just say it's a computer instead of a gnostic puzzle. It does piss me off though because it fundamentally doesn't make more sense than not. Assume there's a layer over us that's more complex, that changes nothing because I'll never perceive it. We're still just as real in any meaningful sense as we would be if there was nothing above us, laws dictate our lives whether programmed by random luck of the draw, God, or some nerd with a universe coder. I feel from a set list whether set by evolution or some artist. Assume there's a layer of the same complexity, then this is identical to that level and we're just as real as they are.