{"id":10667,"date":"2011-11-29T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T06:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2011-11-29T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T06:43:43","slug":"virtual-paradise-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/11\/virtual-paradise-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Paradise Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Assault Girls’, from the makers of ‘Ghost in the Shell’, is quite a letdown, lacking the usual profound philosophising. Its premise is predictable, though nevertheless unnerving and possible in the near future. It speaks of the world in the future, when the global environment, economy and politics become so dishearteningly hopeless that people retreat into virtual worlds, where they take on magnificent personas (avatars), to do whatever they wish – with rules restricted by the designers and game-masters though.<\/p>\n

Sounds like a paradise? Not really – because as long as the hearts and minds of the virtual worlds’ creators and the players are not purified, all the three poisons of greed, hatred and delusion are brought along. In fact, these poisons become magnified with their personas’ superpowers. To maintain one’s place in the virtual world and to improve ‘life’ there, struggle continues. And even if it’s truly paradise, it’s only virtual – no Pure Land that leads to True Happiness of liberation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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