There is a theme that runs throughout my personal work, A theme of life as performance, an understanding that my personal perspective and understanding of the world is a flawed abstraction of reality. Attempting to see the world through perfect absolute truths is impossible. This led me to love Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
With the invention of VR, we are watching the growth of influence the cave has on our lives. Some people embrace this new distraction, while others revile at its reality bending capabilities. What they fail to realize is regardless, the walls around them are just props, and the environment is nothing but a stage. We all end up attributing heaven to shadows in the cave.
Piece about the rapid rate of pollution