(Sabrina Haverty, The Western Journal) Late last month, Facebook announced it would change its name to Meta and add a virtual reality component, “metaverse.”
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Source – The Federalist Papers
by Sabrina Haverty, The Western Journal, November 14th, 2021
While it may seem like a hip new concept, not everyone is excited about it.
Meta is beta.
— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) October 28, 2021
Meta as in “we are a cancer to democracy metastasizing into a global surveillance and propaganda machine for boosting authoritarian regimes and destroying civil society… for profit!” https://t.co/jzOcCFaWkJ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 28, 2021
This may lead conservatives to wonder why she cannot see how the policies she supports are also a “cancer,” but we digress.
Inspired by Iceland, a tourism company, is another rather surprising source that mocked the platform’s changes.
As far as I'm concerned, @iceland has already won 2022 for this epic trolling of @meta.pic.twitter.com/cn3OeWKjGJ
— Reem Abdellatif Al-Shāfiʿī (@Reem_Abdellatif) November 12, 2021
The parody’s version of the metaverse is billed as Icelandverse. In it, an actor who is a Zuckerberg doppelgänger refers to visiting Iceland as “enhanced, actual reality without silly-looking headsets.”
Humor is often an effective strategy in making difficult messages more palatable. It can also be used to poke holes in ridiculous ideas — ideas that typically press deeper issues.
For many, reality is becoming increasingly difficult to cope with, which increases the draw toward the virtual version of reality.
As defined by Merriam-Webster, reality is “something that actually exists or happens: a real event, occurrence, situation, etc.”
From the definition, it is clear that even the term “virtual reality” is oxymoronic.
With social interactions on digital platforms being more frequent, what it really shows is how far society is drifting toward favoring the synthetic and superficial over the authentic and tangible.
The transition is happening quickly, which means it is time to stop and ask ourselves: Are we okay with where things are headed?
We do still have a choice in the matter.
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