{"id":5270,"date":"2010-03-02T00:22:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2010-03-02T00:29:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:29:24","slug":"we-live-in-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/03\/we-live-in-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"We Live in Oz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jXrIDRt1hts&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jXrIDRt1hts&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Summer Wars&#8217; tells of how virtual reality as a &#8216;Second Life&#8217; spills  over to reality, till it becomes indispensable to real life when it gradually replaces  aspects of it.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> In reality, like the illusory in Samsara, nothing  is merely virtual once it is taken seriously<\/span> with much energy and emotions invested. Though virtual worlds are created out of visions of a better world as fantastical getaways, they can only be as paradisaical as its inhabitants are enlightened.<\/p>\n<p>When too many important things are connected online, it&#8217;s likened to putting all of one&#8217;s eggs in a basket. And the terror of it all is that it&#8217;s &#8216;only&#8217; a virtual basket. &#8216;Summer Wars&#8217; demonstrates this horror with a balance of humour though. The way I look at it, it&#8217;s eventual indeed &#8211; that <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">future wars will be waged in virtual worlds &#8211; especially when their existence become so important that they become precious<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Summer Wars&#8217; tells of how virtual reality as a &#8216;Second Life&#8217; spills over to reality, till it becomes indispensable to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[363,205,105],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-illusion","tag-reality","tag-samsara","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}