We've read a lot about the virtual world... places like Second Life where you can create an online avatar (an online character) and interact as you would in the real world. You can buy property and clothes for your online persona and engage in all sorts of interactions. Apparently some people spend more time in this virtual reality than in reality. A news article on CNN tells the story of a South Korean couple, who both lost their jobs. To escape from reality, and their premature 3 month old baby, they spend marthon sessions in an online virtual reality, where they were raising a girl... To the point that they only fed their baby once a day... and the child died... How does that work?? How does virtual realtiy become more real than reality?? How does it work that we are so averse to reality and to the responsibilities entailed there... that we run to something where we don't have to deal with reality... Drugs, alcohol, video games, virtual reality... it's all the same thing... an escape from our life today... But what would our lives look like if we devoted all our energy to real life than to a Second Life....??
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/07/south.korea.baby.dead/index.html?hpt=T2
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I have read about Recovery Programs for folks who have become addicted 'Gamers'..The chemistry changes in the brain are identical as for other addictions. And as many 'Program' people will often share 'Addiction' of any kind becomes a replacement for a sense of Spirituality.....
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