Let's say we're living in a virtual world insofar as our senses cannot discern what's really going on, anyway... and the brains thrives on delusion, on projections of what we think is reality, in most cases even what we know is not real, but would like to be.
So here you see naked human psychology on display, and there's no taboo in the way that would keep you from seeing it for what it is, nor the manipulation at work, and how feedback-simple these processes really are. Humanity is a bubble.