Interesting. My mind goes to how in recent history we suspend disbelief when we watch a movie. We choose to enter into a "fantasy" perhaps as a means to escape our mundane lives. Your idea of being in a digital gulag is maybe similar but strange in that we choose to be in the digital gulag and then seek to follow those who aren't stuck in it, to escape. Kind of like locking ourselves into a cinema, throwing away the key and watching movies as a means of escape!

I want to be a Superman, so I'll go and watch someone else being one🤔😵‍💫