Because it becomes their everything. They can't even comprehend an outside, and live in perpetual fear of banishment. That's why the social conditioning is so strong, and why today's inmates are tomorrow's guards. The entire range of available options--available behavior--at any and every turn, only contains actions only inside the game. Outside doesn't exist...or is akin to death.
Many years ago, the very last time I saw one of my best friends from high school, was at a gathering of these people. There was Wii bowling, half-hearted ironic karaoke, cards against humanity, settlers of cataan, and craft microbrews. East coast former prep-kids with vocal fry and west coast speech-patterns griped about motherfucking everything under the Sun.
These were young professionals, probably the minimum salary 60-80k just a couple years out of college, acting like the loseriest arrested development spoiled, petulant babies I've ever been surrounded by. Every conversation was simultaneously the dullest conversation I've ever had. My wife and I, having actual interesting things going on in our lives, and friends who were not these people, were not versed in the lingo and the rules of the game. We got a lot of upturned noses, and that face: that gaping fish-mouth half-sneer you so often see from the female of this species.
The friend, the high school friend who brought us, quietly deleted us from her social media shortly after, not a word then, not a word since, more than a decade ago. The enclave had deemed us unacceptable I guess. So much for the 10 years of friendship. More with my wife, who had been best friends with her since middle school. Maid of honor at our wedding, even.
This was early on in the woke cult's blossoming, so for a long time it was just one of those mysteries. But now I've seen it happen to others numerous times, in life, in online forum communities, in MMO guilds, in gaming groups. It's a cult alright, or call it a religion if you like. It's shitty and dangerous as fuck, and it gobbles up lives, chewing up what's supposed to be the best years, the most productive years, of their lives. It's a grotesquerie, and quite possibly the end of our civilization.
Because it becomes their everything. They can't even comprehend an outside, and live in perpetual fear of banishment. That's why the social conditioning is so strong, and why today's inmates are tomorrow's guards. The entire range of available options--available behavior--at any and every turn, only contains actions only inside the game. Outside doesn't exist...or is akin to death.
Many years ago, the very last time I saw one of my best friends from high school, was at a gathering of these people. There was Wii bowling, half-hearted ironic karaoke, cards against humanity, settlers of cataan, and craft microbrews. East coast former prep-kids with vocal fry and west coast speech-patterns griped about motherfucking everything under the Sun.
These were young professionals, probably the minimum salary 60-80k just a couple years out of college, acting like the loseriest arrested development spoiled, petulant babies I've ever been surrounded by. Every conversation was simultaneously the dullest conversation I've ever had. My wife and I, having actual interesting things going on in our lives, and friends who were not these people, were not versed in the lingo and the rules of the game. We got a lot of upturned noses, and that face: that gaping fish-mouth half-sneer you so often see from the female of this species.
The friend, the high school friend who brought us, quietly deleted us from her social media shortly after, not a word then, not a word since, more than a decade ago. The enclave had deemed us unacceptable I guess. So much for the 10 years of friendship. More with my wife, who had been best friends with her since middle school. Maid of honor at our wedding, even.
This was early on in the woke cult's blossoming, so for a long time it was just one of those mysteries. But now I've seen it happen to others numerous times, in life, in online forum communities, in MMO guilds, in gaming groups. It's a cult alright, or call it a religion if you like. It's shitty and dangerous as fuck, and it gobbles up lives, chewing up what's supposed to be the best years, the most productive years, of their lives. It's a grotesquerie, and quite possibly the end of our civilization.