Victor Pelevin. iPhuck 10 (№ 303762)

- What is the essence of our life experience?
"Wow," said Mara, taking over the conversation, - what a question. I don't know, of course.
- Think that he sees for a second, turning away from electronic hallucinations of man? He sees his filthy cell. See the clock telling you that his time is coming to an end. And saucer, which again is nothing... But the e-hallucination each day tells the person that actually the world is much broader - it has some brilliant artists, the symbolic pig, the Chechen authorities, claimed the Oceans pussy, huge insurmountable space, invincible Chinese philosophy and so on. The problem is that all of this exists mainly in the form of our faith. Almost the entire "world" in any aspect is down to the person vague rumors occasionally followed by a suspicious video. It is too far away to check in person. And day by day he sees only his cage, which is empty and dirty. If he's really smart, he can guess that in this cage no one even lives. But as soon as he is forgotten, his mind starts to rattle stories about what he and what the world is. Alas, if you look, all these stories have only one purpose - to explain to the person why he sits in a cage and will sit in it for as long as the scoreboard does not show "zero".