Dec 26, 2025 Dec 26, 2025 2025-12-26

I lived the first 19 years of my life under communism, then suddenly landed in a (more or less) capitalist world. The system collapsed and my country tried to find a new way of working, under a different ideology.

So it’s safe to say that I know both worlds. And one of the best things about seeing the same thing (in this case, reality) from two different but equally valid perspective is that you get some space, some experience, some new layer of understanding that can help you connect the invisible dots. It gives you and edge to spot early imbalances, signals of a profound, even though invisible yet, change.

And here’s what I see happening.

Right now, we’re building AI tools that generate plausible text, plausible images, plausible video. We’re on the verge of making plausible world creation a commodity. Notice the word: plausible. Not real. Just convincing enough to pass as real.

In other words, we’re creating reality-altering tools that can be ingested directly through familiar transport avenues—computers and phones.

But wait a minute.

Marijuana does the same thing. Psilocybin does the same thing. Any psychoactive substance you ingest alters your brain’s perception of reality. You’re no longer in the “real” world. You’re living in a dream state, a modified experience.

The only difference with AI is that we’re not using biological, under the skin ingestion. We’re using screens, speakers, and familiar digital interfaces. The transport mechanism is different, but the result is the same.

The Coming Imbalance

Going forward, this shift may create significant imbalances in our world.

We may soon see completely new realities that alter experience and perception in ways that make the difference between “real” and “generated” impossible to detect. Completely artificial worlds, that will “feel” real, though, and, on top of that, engineered to stick. The uncomfortable part: someone else will control how these worlds are created.

Think entire social media platforms built on AI characters and AI worlds, with a single goal: keeping you inside the feed. Forever. Massive dopamine mines. So good, they’re almost unescapable. Just like the high you keep chasing.

I think there will be a huge audience for this. Because the worlds these systems present will be far more compelling than actual reality. Why deal with a messy, unpredictable life when you can subscribe to a perfectly crafted one – and stay there?

Instead of selling marijuana, we’ll sell subscriptions to synthetic worlds.

Instead of drug dealers, we’ll have world designers.

Instead of rehab clinics, we’ll have… actually, we’ll probably still need those, but maybe with a totally different treatment layer.

The Two Paths

I see two paths emerging.

The healing path: therapeutic applications for mental health, carefully designed experiences for self-improvement, controlled environments for people working on themselves. No dopamine hijacking, no addiction hooks—just tools for growth.

The exploitation path: people sliding into these synthetic worlds without understanding what’s happening to them. Becoming, in a sense, slaves without consent. Addicted to realities they didn’t choose, controlled by systems they don’t understand.

The Final Transport Layer

And here’s where it gets truly strange: both paths—healing and exploitation—will accelerate dramatically when the transport layer changes.

Very soon, we’ll use brain-computer interfaces as the transport mechanism. No more screens. No more phones. Direct neural input.

At that point, people will be hooked into synthetic realities the same way they’re hooked when they ingest traditional drugs. The biological and digital transport layers will merge.

The marijuana dealer and the AI world designer will become the same thing.

The New Ideological Split

Beyond individual addiction and healing, we need to think about what happens at the collective level.

New social structures will emerge. AI-powered social media platforms. Entertainment neighborhoods—think red light districts, but for synthetic realities. Maybe even small countries or city-states built entirely around AI-generated experiences. And probably forms of social aggregation we can’t even imagine yet. Entire communities powered and sustained by fantasy AI.

On the other side, we’ll have traditional communities. Places where AI influence is deliberately limited. Where life is built on real interaction with real people—not avatars, not fabricated contexts, not algorithmically optimized companions. Yes, AI tools will be used everywhere, even in these spaces. There will be enhancement, optimization, a dramatic increase in comfort. But the foundation will remain human-to-human, flesh-to-flesh, messy and unpredictable.

Between these two worlds? Tension. Isolation. A dynamic I don’t fully understand yet.

I don’t have an answer about which direction this goes. Will one become dominant? Will they coexist indefinitely, like parallel civilizations? Will people migrate between them, or will the boundaries harden into something like borders?

What I do know is this: we might be looking at one of the biggest disruptions in human society since we invented ideology itself.

The last two centuries gave us the dichotomy between communism and capitalism. Entire wars were fought over it. Walls were built. Families were separated. The world organized itself around that split.

As I said, I lived the first 19 years of my life under communism, then moved to the capitalist world. I’ve seen how both systems construct reality, how they shape what people believe is possible. And I think both are already becoming outdated.

We’re on the verge of a new dichotomy: AI-powered versus non-AI-powered life structures and organizations.

Not just tools. Not just preferences. Entire ways of being human.

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And this is where this blog post stops. Why? Because I truly have no idea how this will unfold. I’m still trained on the old world, so I cannot fully grasp the new one. All I know: it’s already breeding.