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Or the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Game [0]. Every time I watch that I get this eerie sensation that we're essentially giving our free will up to the masters of the games and social platforms we're addicted to.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28Star_Trek:_The_Nex...

Wow! The game in this episode has been living in my head since I was a child and I could never find where it was from!

I need to watch this episode again

Darn, I forgot that episode. That's a very eerie parallel to some of what we have today.
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