What is 'Reality'?
Do we really understand it?
Do we experience it? Or do we simply live while trapped in a virtual recreation of it, like in the Matrix?
As humans, we've turned ourselves into cyborgs. We cannot function without technology, almost to the point where it is quite literally 'attached' to our bodies. If you went around asking people if they had a phone, 99.9% of people would say yes. It is almost a requirement of society to own one. But our society also spends so much of its time on the internet, and on the social networking sites that people are essentially living a 'second life' online.
Our realities have changed, where our living selves have become secondary to the 'self' we've created online. Our Avatars are who we are now, and we have become unable to escape from it, as we've grown so accustomed to it.
But now, when offered the blue pill or the red pill, I am confident that most people would take the blue pill, avoiding reality out of fear of what they were and losing everything they now have.
Even I live my life 'jacked in' but I'm aware of it, and I don't create any 'virtual self' in order to interact with others. (Or at least, I'd like to think that, since I don't use Facebook or any other SNS.)
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