Interview · moment 25 of 28
Metaverse Children and Digital Purgatory
from Louis CK | The Tim Dillon Show #317 · #317
3 min
Guest
They riff on a news story about people proposing 'metaverse children' to solve overpopulation, joking that anyone who believes in that should have only virtual kids, then speculate the metaverse will become a surveilled hierarchy/hell where past behavior determines your afterlife status.
- Tim describes the metaverse as purgatory where people must defend their right to exist each day based on everything they've said and thought.
- Creating a metaverse without hierarchy and justice systems is impossible—all of this current surveillance and monitoring is practice for judging where you belong in the metaverse.
- Social media clickbait and cancel culture isolate specific sectors of your personality rather than engaging your whole self.
- When platforms know exactly what gets you off or what makes you angry, they exploit those isolated fragments instead of appealing to your whole person, which is why everything is fragmented and polarized.
- News no longer shows the big picture—stories about Iran, for example, miss the opportunity to present it as a cultured and complex nation we might actually befriend.