We avoid the truth nearly everywhen. We don't have time to think things through, to find out how things really are. We don't have time to know the rules, to know how all taxes really work, or what we should do with our life. There's no time, and often no motivation. Cause life is distracting and taxing enough as it is. We watch TV, take drugs, alcohol, cigarets. Do a lot of things to just get away from things for a while cause it'd be too much.
I think we overestimate how much of the real we can deal with.
So, sure. As games become better i.e. become more to our liking i.e. our ideal situation, paradise, we will find it harder to resist them. I'm sure that x years in the future we will have the world hooked on videogame experiences, the best way to get out of reality for a while.
And then there is another upcoming problem: solipsism. Maybe the most logical alternative to the scientific viewpoint is the idea that everything is at any moment just as you think it is. There's no counterargument, only the probability can be discussed and that is far from clear. I think we will see a huge amount of people trying to convince their brains that something is real, that isn't real right now. Fantastic videogame worlds for example.
All this doesn't have to be bad as it will eventually make us understand the world better, and the things we want.
I also believe that if we ever were to make a near perfect game, something so close to our idea of a paradise, that it would have so much power over humanity that it might inspire us all to make reality alike that gaming world.
Maybe even to stop war forever. Or to let a good version of communism function, in which we are all wealthy, and all have a home, and a job without huge differences between the effort one job takes over another, without competition or top down business structures.
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