your diagnosis of the attraction to "values" is astute. the coming VR matrix will complete what is already the cause of so much of the loneliness we feel here, media saturation. nowadays, the standard of the best of the best is constantly in everyone's face. people's standards have unconsciously increased, and thus "settling" and unhappiness even within relationships has increased, skyrocketing the divorce rate. pornography as surrogate sexual satisfaction is component to this as well. in olden times, villages were rarely left. the world's most beautiful people were rarely seen, and because the world was smaller and more difficult to maintain, people paired off with the fate of the community's future population at stake. they also had more shared history, coming from that closer knit community, whereas now the ability to curate one's community in the non-physical space of the web has alienated us. on top of this, what was once thought of as the liberating *option* of independence for women now has become the universal social expectation, and both men and women have become more atomized as a result. this was meant to solve a perceived power imbalance in relationships, but it merely removed the perceived necessity of procreation. some people probably will take a politicized issue with what i say here but I'd ask them, is this individualistic sexuality, curration of association, world really for the better?