 Anything that might persuade you to leave the platform, a news story, or any outside link is brutally punished by their algorithms. It might liberate you from your dependent junkie status, and that can't be allowed. But wait, there's more. Apple, Facebook, and others are now telling you to put on their virtual reality headsets where you're swallowed up by the stimuli like those tiny fish in my food chain charts. You're invited to live as a passive recipient of make-believe experiences like a pod slave in the Matrix.