2047: Virtual Revolution (2016)

Nicolas Van Beveren: Jon

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• Jon : This must amuse you, I'm sure. All the negative sensations, such as pain, are voluntarily decreased to a minimum when we are online. So, the question is, how do you expect to torture someone properly, then? Well...

  [WHISPERS] 

  Jon : You do it offline.

• Jon : We're going to have to change our strategy radically. The one that we are using is just not working. Our plan was to scare the gamers off, to force them to leave the verses. But we can't control the media, so we have no way to let the people know that there are more and more cybertronic deaths. To most of them, they're just urban legends, and the gamers who vanished are just playing new avatars, or left for other verses. It's useless to kill people under such conditions.

• Jon : Our society was building producers and consumers. Those who were successful enough in their studies were formatted to become efficient producers. The others, however, the consumers, always had a tendency not to be formatted enough. Always giving their opinion. Always challenging the privileges of our political elites. Always criticizing inequalities. Critical sense became a pain for the rulers. The virtual worlds solved that. Right? What's more docile than a gamer? For those virtual junkies, real life is of no interest anymore. Why do you think Interpol is now on the case? The politicians have just as much interest in maintaining the status quo as the corporations. All they want is to keep the gamers in their vegetative state. But what you do... is to fulfill the will of the rulers. You are helping them uphold their control over us. From a moral perspective, this is a crime. And for that, you deserve to die.