Much as how the ideal goal for all companies engaged in free market competition is not to be, the ideal goal for all career politicians engaged in democratic government is not to be.

The closer games get to simulating reality, the less reasons & excuses there are to do bad things in reality. With full immersive VR, the collective id of humanity can be contained in the sandbox "Matrix" where it belongs. Reality may finally become the exclusive domain of our higher nature, unpolluted by our base, obsolete animal/tribal urges.

People are so quick to fear the "corrupting" effects of virtual reality, but it may very well be that VR is the key to establishing an unimaginably better reality.

Totalitarianism usually worms its way into power by appealing to "strong father" imagery, but it's equally adept at exploiting "protective mother" emotions as well.