Kid Cudi - Pion

Faces in the crowd lazily fluctuated.  Only twenty bodies occupied the stoa, but hundreds, maybe thousands, of minds occupied the bodies, their faces briefly seen in every anthropic form.  All to hear the words of great thinkers.  The speakers were passionate.  Their tone patient and resonant.  All who were present felt as one, and by occupying the same bodies, they were one, at least for a while.  

"We all have the capacity to live rich and fulfilling lives, now more than ever. A unique form of connection has arisen in the world, and we are here to witness it, be a part of it.  The worlds we virtually create have opened us to experiences never believed to be possible.  We are truly becoming perfect beings, one with each other and our environments, limitless, boundless."

"But what of the outside world?  Surely it is just as important as any of the worlds we have created here."

"It is just one possible world.  Simulations are giving us all possible worlds."

"But not all of those possible worlds are good ones."

"Yet there are countless that you would call good.  The world outside of virtuality is severely limited in its possibility.  Out there, you get no choice in whether the world is good or bad.  It conforms to everyone's desires, and desire creates conflict."

"What kind of conflict?"

"Once a desire manifests, there is initially the struggle to obtain what is desired.  Then internal and interpersonal conflict arises as the desire confronts other desires, both one's own and those of other people."

"What can we do to avoid this conflict?"

"It is impossible. All one can do is temper one's own desires to conform to one possible world, or create a fictional world where all of one's desires can be satisfied without conflict."

"But if I live in a fictional world, am I really living?"

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