So let me see i follow this; the 'real' (outer) reality is some sort of traumatic wasteland and we've all voluntarily plugged ourselves into this subset reality in order to live in a bliss state for a while and ignore the pain of being conscious in that other one. That's an interesting idea, that it wasnt some nefarious AI or corporate conspiracy - that we plugged in by choice to avoid the suffering there. And we're about to do the same thing again from within this reality; the development of our own Virtual Reality devices....It's like a nested set of sub-realities that keep getting better in terms of enjoyment, pleasure and avoiding suffering? It's alchemical: we're continually refining and distilling the best parts of consciousness perhaps? I wonder how many iterations there have been?