What's Real?

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes there’s a truly insightful comment in a Slashdot post:

Honestly, I think virtual worlds will set us free and give us the strongest dose of reality check we’ve ever experienced. After a while you notice that you are valuing utterly imaginary things above actual real things and then you start thinking, “Well, Jesus. What is the value of real things? Maybe the ‘real’ things in my life aren’t even real. Maybe the real things I bought are just as hollow as so many bits on the ether. Maybe that’s a problem that I should address.”

Or maybe it won’t turn out that way for most. My perspective: there’s as much virtual crap at the local shopping mall as there is in the Flavor of the Year online game. It’s all the same hat.

Cool, I have mod points today.