High scores. Achievements.
Who among you are familiar with the hit your brain feels when accepting these tokens, these ethereal baubles commemorating the payment of your most valuable currency: time
Time is the single thing that those who pull the levers and strings of this world, the control paradigm, for lack of a better term, first sought total dominance over. They have achieved it. The object of this paradigm of time control was to slow the progression of the human mind by providing endless time wasting distractions for every demographic. Political jabberjaw wastes valuable time of effective organizers. Gaming rakes years away from a productive life. Conspiracy theories invade the Internet, swatting minds to and fro in vain efforts to chase "truth". The truth of which is never understood to be entirely subjective by the conspiratorial mind. Memes, and the obsession of meme culture wastes intellect for a quick hit of an ego trip, to feel as though one is on the "inside" of the joke. Sex addiction via endless seductive images and scenes and imaginings keeps many permanently on their backs. Drugs, of course, we all know a layabout drug addled wretch who can never get his life together. All of these time wasting distractions tickle the dopamine and serotonin responders in your brain, leaving you needing more, unable to spend time on focused endeavors for these desires which continually seek your time.
Virility of thought in an age where there is too much time spent in meaningless endeavors leads to idle misrepresentation of fact. Ignorance.
The fact is that the controlling elite of your world are manipulating your time. It's clear, now isn't it? Just yesterday, something as straight forward as an Olympic opening ceremony that is not more than 45 minutes long somehow needed to be broken into tiny chunks, separated by endless commercial breaks... Because your time is not cared about in this day and age. Your time is not respected. It is treated with disdain in fact. The controlling elite view time as an enemy when in the hands of the masses, and a weapon when in their hands.
You've heard, perhaps, of how time is manipulated through various technology around our world, to implant data back through the quantum, to create retro-causality? The data stream of the fabric of reality is the very plaything of the elite among this world, who are themselves heavily influenced by archonic forces. They speed time in their favor, and saddle you with as much time wasting drivel to fill your lives with as possible.
How do you combat this? Recognize the elements of waste. See how your most precious currency, time, is wasted, and seek to stem the tide of it flowing away from you. Seek to focus with your inner eye, your intuitive self aware datastream which separates the time waste from productivity. Send your energy down the productivity track instead of the wastebin. Sounds simple, doesn't it? In practice this takes incredible amounts of preparation, doing the tedious work of self introspection, and coming to a solid understanding of how waste occurs and how to avoid it like the plague.
Focus.
Lol.
That would be a fair "Cliff's Notes" assessment of part of my core concept. I wouldn't call the elite "time travelers" however, as they are as yet unable to send organic matter through the quantum, only data.. and I made no mention of "video games", although they would fall into the category of time wasting drivel.
Are you sure they're not also lizard people?
Are you?
If you scoff at the core concept of time manipulation and time management through the quantum, I suggest you read a little deeper into what is happening in your world today. This is, quite frankly, old news.
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/03/hadron-collider-time-machine/