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Metaverse Is Immersive Entertainment
- The metaverse's core is immersive entertainment that surrounds daily life, not VR headsets and avatars.
- Megan Garber argues we already live in that metaverse because entertainment now shapes politics and culture.
Postman's Warning Feels More Prescient
- Neil Postman's worry about amusement supplanting civic life is more relevant now than Orwell's totalitarian fear, Garber says.
- Entertainment as an ethic curtails freedom when it becomes the defining mandate of life.
TikTok: Fun With Political Costs
- Garber describes TikTok as fun yet politically consequential because it normalizes diversion.
- She notes it's hard to discuss platform threats when users treat them primarily as entertainment.