Comment by BizarroLand
2 days ago
There's a cliff though.
It will happen for different people at different times, but at some point the realization that you are looking at people who don't exist living lives that aren't possible to sell you products that won't help you will click for you, and when it does it will cut you off from society in a way we don't currently have words for.
> you are looking at people who don't exist living lives that aren't possible to sell you products that won't help you
That's a description of most TV commercials.
Are you sure about that? In the Matrix Cypher wants to return into the matrix knowing fully well that it is fake, and backstabs his friends to accomplish it. I suspect we may see it play out similarly irl. Fiction tends to be pretty good at commenting on human nature.
There's a trope of humans who don't fit in to the world.
My comment is more that more and more people will find themselves as that person unexpectedly as they are driven out by the popularity of people that do not exist.
Sure, some people may love the idea of being the only real person in a sea of fakes, but those people are true freaks and not worth discussing except out of pity.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LonersAreFreaks