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“What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore. Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called 'heaven' where there is no pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Also total bullshit. Just like all that God stuff. There's no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you're going to die someday and disappear forever. Sorry.”

Book:Ready Player One

Work

Ready Player One

In the year 2045, Earth is in a state of environmental and economic collapse. The majority of the population escapes reality by immersing themselves in the OASIS, a vast virtual world created by the late billionaire James Halliday. The novel follows Wade Watts, a teenager known as Parzival, who becomes deeply involved in the search for an Easter egg hidden within the OASIS by Halliday. The egg is said to grant the winner control over the virtual world, leading to a high-stakes competition among players. As Wade navigates the complex and dangerous world of the OASIS, he uncovers secrets about Halliday's life and the true nature of the virtual reality. more

Author

Ernest Cline

Ernest Cline is an American novelist known for his science fiction works. His most famous novel, 'Ready Player One', combines virtual reality gaming with 1980s pop culture, earning widespread acclaim. more

“In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for a great deal of money you can buy a view from the window with a painted sun, a sky-blue bay and a calm evening. Unfortunately the author of this fragment will again be Ed—but even this is not important, because the very window the view is bought for is also only drawn in. Then perhaps the wall on which it is drawn is a drawing too? But drawn by whom and on what? He raised his eyes to the wall of the toilet as though in hopes of an answer there. Traced on the tiles in red felt-tip pen were the jolly, rounded letters of a brief slogan: "Trapped? Masturbate!”

Reality Capitalism Metaphysics

Book:Homo Zapiens

Source: Homo Zapiens

“The missile crisis "was the most dangerous moment in human history," Arthur Schlesinger commented in October 2002 at a conference in Havana on the fortieth anniversary of the crisis, attended by a number of those who witnessed it from within as it unfolded. Desision-makers at the time undoubtedly understood that the fate of the world was in their hands. Nevertheless, attendees at the conference may have been shocked by some of the revelations. They were informed that in October 1962 the world was "one word away" from nuclear war. "A guy named Arkhipov saved the world," said Thomas Blanton of the National Security Archive in Washington, which helped organize the event. He was referring to Vasil Arkhipov, a Soviet submarine officer blocked an order to fire nuclear-armed toredoes in October 27, at the tensest moment of the crisis, when te submarines were under attack bu US destroyers, A devastating response would have been a near certainty, leading a major war.”

Reality Warfare Nuclear War

Book:Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

Source: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.”

Reality Horror Sanity

Book:The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House