In Virtual Reality, a simulated world you yourself create, you can program a world where you never again, for instance; need experience rejection or resistance. You could also simulate doing just about whatever you like, without ever needing to experience guilt, shame, embarrassment or regrets. Virtual Reality is also a world without rules. You decide when and if anything will happen. You say what goes, and for once you are literally your own boss. Virtual Reality is a world where no artificial, man-made concepts exists to impede your success or fulfillment,such as: laws, propriety, etiquette, sin, or social graces, unless of course you want them to. For example, in VR you could slay or torture a simulated image of whoever wronged you, without breaking any laws or actually harming anyone. You could safely by pushing the envelope in any direction you choose. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and later was part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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