Album Review: Starcatcher by Greta Van Fleet

"There is no actual contact with any deeper reality, though the experience of it can be simulated." In 1974, philosopher Robert Nozick argued against ethical hedonism with a thought experiment so harrowing that it continues to pervade our popular culture to this very day. Nozick's idea of the "experience machine" is the central plot device of films like The Matrix and novels like Infinite Jest; why be present and participate in the real world if a simulated escape is infinitely more pleasurable and stimulating? Go ahead, plug in. It's a world beyond your wildest dreams.

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