What if no profound and more spiritually satisfying carrot of “intrinsic motivation” presents itself to match all the carrots of immediate gratification? We may unexpectedly find ourselves choosing the Pleasure Palace and its Dark Playgrounds of infomercials and virtual reality over truth and meaning; endless distractions, spectatorship, consumption, perpetually unfinished wound-licking, ever refined excuses, and procrastination, procrastination, procrastination. Endless fast carbs, endless gratification at the expense of meaning and dignity. Oh, the digital vanilla prison—oh, the candy cotton
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