The first rule of the social reality club is: you don’t talk about the social reality club. But sometimes it simply becomes too obvious. In such case, you minimize damage by admitting that yes, this very narrowly defined situation is an artificial social reality, but nothing else.
But what is the alternative? Imagine an average person admitting that everything around them is social games. How are they going to continue living their life?
The first rule of the social reality club is: you don’t talk about the social reality club. But sometimes it simply becomes too obvious. In such case, you minimize damage by admitting that yes, this very narrowly defined situation is an artificial social reality, but nothing else.
But what is the alternative? Imagine an average person admitting that everything around them is social games. How are they going to continue living their life?
They could either become depressed, become more okay with social games, or hold some more nuanced view—like some social games are good but not all.