I've been thinking about this lately. Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation" talks about how how we are hopelessly trapped in a reality that doesn't actually exist, a hyperreality. It has been going on since the industrial era but in my estimation it accelerated with the the television and since the internet it's all we know. I don't think there's any way to escape the hyperreality we've created but I desperately want to try going a month or a year without looking at a screen and see if I regain some connection to base reality.