Welcome to the Metaverse
And a place you’ll never have to queue at an airport.
And a place you’ll never have to queue at an airport.
The article linked below fascinates me even though, in truth, I haven’t read it in it’s entirety. But we don’t read long form articles any more, do we? The system has successfully dumbed us down to eye grabbing, click baited headlines rather than the substance of the story itself, and I doubt you’ll continue reading on here as firstly this will not be a studious take on our on going enslavement (envelopment? Editor) into yet another electrical Matrix and lastly the slightly sideways glance I’ll be giving the topic under discussion here will be an outlandish one, an unpalatable one but a very likely one, and who needs realism such as this when we have a Royal Family waving to us from their balcony, behind the gates of their private mansion and the unfathomable private wealth that would end the use of food banks, child poverty and the chasm of wealth and societal inequality throughout this once proud island in the English Channel? No-one needs that type of reality because it’s, well, too real.
So it’s off to the Metaverse I go. At least I won’t have to queue at the airport!
Have you noticed the queues at so many airports worldwide? You may also have seen the numerous articles swimming around The Matrix confirming that here in the UK, all but 2 airports will be closed permanently by the year 2050? But it’s good for the environment, right? The environment, this planet, this Mother Earth that has been in circulation for anything up to several Billion years, gently spinning on it’s axis through the great unknown of a mind bending number of Galaxies, perhaps a singular Universe, but all the while gently spinning around the sun. But we believe, in our collective folly, that we can control this gigantic rock revolving around the Great Fire God of the Sky? Hence yet another conspiratorial yarn of yore is now front and centre in the public domain. You peasant, cannot fly. We elites, well, we have our own form of private excursions in an empty sky thank you very much. But we have a solution for you, and you won’t even contribute to those nasty gases that are destroying our planet.
And you won’t have to queue at the airport!
Tamagotchi kids: could the future of parenthood be having virtual children in the metaverse?
Name: Tamagotchi kids. Age: Yet to be born, though it won't be long, says Catriona Campbell. Is she pregnant? No. Well…www.theguardian.com
Stay home. Reduce your footprint. Reduce your contact with the “real” world. Be a good (Global) citizen. Have you seen this movie before perchance? Even the briefest of meanders through The Matrix see stories of a Welsh School serving a selection of students bugs and insects as they seek to reduce their carbon to a Year Zero for everyone. Hooray! Perhaps you’ve seen the videos in China of a fully automated robot dog checking visitors QR Codes before entry into a restaurant. It’s Black Mirror. But real. So why not dive into the Metaverse and be whomever and wherever you want to be. You could be Johnny Depp on the set of the film Pirates of the Caribbean but if you have a scintilla more sense than that you’ll be Johnny on the set of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Why, in the name of everything that is holy, would you want to leave that world and re-join the real one?
So stay home. Be cashless. Be retina and face scanned at your local supermarket because, well, it’s convenient and in no way darkly dystopian. Here, have some meat that isn’t meat but is as plastic as the packaging it comes wrapped in. Here’s some medicines that aren’t real medicines but are genetically modified, much like the crops that produce the foods that are thankfully being replaced by the genetically created foodstuffs and “meat” in laboratories. Here’s your “Smart” Meter in your “Smart” City that’s monitored 24/7 within your “Smart” Neighbourhood by “Smart” Surveillance.
Barcoded Humans. In a QR Coded world.
Here’s your virtual children in a virtual world.
Here’s the demise of our human species.
But at least you won’t have to queue at the airport!
Welcome, to the real world.
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