All ontological questions are suspended, or even abolished, in pure enjoyment, and this is why such enjoyment 'non-phobic' or free of negativity or guilt, remains suspect. The idea of virtual reality enters Western thought with Plato's cave, but that parable is designed to make the unexamined, unquestioned, virtual world seem as shabby and impoverished as possible. With Kant we get a further twist on the virtual, as if to say that everything you need is already included in there, there is no need to look any further. At least this is almost the case, but for the ethical. The terror of absolute enjoyment is still present. Only in our own time is the reversal complete, although the prospect of the closure of the virtual brings with it a new and pervasive kind of terror as the loss of being comes into focus.