Archetypo on @Substck ..
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I’m starting to understand why some billionaires and Silicon Valley–adjacent intellectuals—often orbiting places like Stanford are obsessed with the idea that reality isn’t real at all & that we’re living in a simulation.
“What if this is all code?”

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sounds innocent & playful. Philosophical, even.

But this idea does something irreversible 2 our collective moral spine.

If reality is just a game, then bodies become avatars, pain becomes a glitch “and” death becomes a reset.

Once you accept that, almost anything (if not

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everything) becomes easier to justify.

Because if this isn’t real, then nothing truly counts: suffering, innocence and responsibility lose their meaning.

You’re no longer hurting a human being. You’re interacting w an object inside a system. Playing w it.

This is where

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empathy dies.

Historically, every system that needed permission 2 do the unthinkable first had 2 declare its victims unreal: soulless, subhuman, symbolic, expendable. They are not fully human, not like us, not real in the same way.

The simulation theory is just the latest,

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cleanest, most tech-friendly version of that move. & this time their victim is the whole 🌐

The moment you declare the 🌐 unreal, you dn’t bcm enlightened & mature. You bcm unaccountbl.
Very convenient 4 ψ opaths

∴ many 🙏 2 our writer. Not 4 (micro) sociopaths either..

John 🥸🌐💥