"Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder."2
Now that humanity has the internet in our grasp, we have developed a non-physical reality that parallels and overtakes the physical world far greater than was ever possible with print. In the second century, the Gnostics shunned the material plane and encouraged careful consideration and mental fortitude in order to escape it; in the twentieth century, we gained the ability to glimpse a world solely of human creation.