In this bureaucratic totalitarian public world, the appeal of the virtual world is obvious - But...!

This public world we inhabit in the world of work, officialdom, mass media etc. has been progressively bureaucratised to include all major institutions (and even family, and social interactions); and the bureaucracies incrementally made to interact and become compatible; and brought under the same auditing rules, therefore the same ideology and central control. 

Consequently, this functional aspect of human existence has been drained of personality and the spirit - it has become thin, superficial, mundane - and completely materialistic.

Therefore; this major (and vital) aspect of life is experienced as a dead weight of coercive oppression, with no large or lasting place of escape. 

When the public and social world is so utterly purposeless, meaningless, and dull - it is natural that people look to the virtual world for escape into something richer, more exciting, more fulfilling...

And yet, of course, the virtual world is a product of - and controlled by - the same totalitarian bureaucracy from which people are yearning to escape. 

So, he virtual world is always being subverted; always becoming more and more like the world of work-officialdom-mass media - increasingly sharing exactly that thin, tyrannical futility from which the virtual world offered some degree of escape.  

What this means is that more people are becoming more aware that their actual experienced world is never going to provide what they most deeply desire and need...

Or, more exactly, this actual world will provide less and less, briefer and briefer, weaker and weaker doses of what they most want and need.

Ever less Joy. 

What makes this spiritually-lethal (which is, of course, the ultimate demonic purpose behind All This); is that even these small, infrequent, enfeebled experiences will be interpreted as unreal, meaningless escapism, evidence of weakness, cowardice and psychopathology merely.  

And that is when people ought to consider the validity and implications of the Argument from Desire.