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229 - Paul Kingsnorth - Civilization and Control

The Symbolic World

CHAPTER

The Metaverse and Its Limits

In the metaverse you can just be whatever you want, and nobody will know that you are something else. But in but there's a disjunct in reality, which is that this world imposes limits. And i always talk about this thing i call the machine asa. Effectively, it's a machine for destroying limits. That's fundamentally what it does. Any thought of being limit limited is an outrage. Increasingly. You knowit it's crazy. It's dangerous. We don't even know what that is right? The aim is almost like the destruction of all limits on our culture. Almost everything we think gets in the way of whatever we think requires us to break down

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