COVID 5G conspiracy: 5G doesn't spread COVID, maybe COVID enables 5G for rolling out virtual experiences

After reading the linked article just ahead, a light went off and I googled 'COVID 5G' and found conspiracies that suggest that 5G is spreading the virus. But, my idea is just the converse.

With the music industry and other entertainment, conference and festival events on indefinite hold due to the pandemic, the timing is mighty right for rolling out virtual experiences. 5G to the rescue! Players like Apple and Google can now introduce their AR glasses and VR headsets as well.

Are all of our social experiences to be relegated to virtual? Let's not forget, the movie industry is already dying or at least struggling to stay above water, our music industry has been sucking ass long before Napster, but digital put the nail in the coffin. What else? Obviously news is pure sensationalism, following the death of print and with the rise of the internet. Television may have a lot of series success, but it's rife with heavily scripted reality shows. With telecom merging into media and social media taking a strong lead in terms of dominating screen time, it makes sense that tech companies would lean into gaming and virtual, interactive experiences. Perhaps COVID is exactly what media needed to fully dominate the attention and minds of the masses.

What remains of actual social interaction is limited to outdoor spaces, apart from what we do behind our own closed doors (minus the rise of VR porn). All that remains is for extreme social unrest to warrant a lockdown of the public spaces that constitute our final civil liberty. What a coincidence, that seems to be picking up steady momentum as well, and apparently at an uncompromising capacity.

The power of VR is all about immersion. Forget about tv, social media bumping our serotonin reward system, and even porn in terms of addiction. VR represents the complete substitution of our senses - we lose and replace all sense of time, space, and identity. And that's how we become tools and unbridled consumers - this is how we truly become slaves - to FANG, etc. (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google).

Perhaps this will all settle down, but it seems to hint towards a direction that's just itching to surface.

It's the new frontier, the conquest of virtual space, and also a literal sort of banishment from The Garden. That's what we get for biting the Apple a little too hungrily. Adam and Steve, afterall. RIP Jobs.

And, I'm sure there's a veritable cornucopia of more dazzling fruit just around the corner.

In the spirit of a free mind, body and spirit...and speech...let us remember and cherish the words of Joni Mitchell:

We are stardust, we are golden...

We are billion year old carbon...

We are caught in the devils bargain...

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden