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Or the government would cover it up so society wouldn’t fall apart.

Rise of a new conspiracy theory haha but yes it might happen

The simulation theory is an old conspiracy theory in fact going back thousands of years the Indian scriptures called the world the MAYA. I don’t know what scriptures because I know very little of India’s religions or philosophy.

That's a philosophical idea.
When they say Maya they mean the worldly pleasures and luxuries which eventually keep you attached to the physical nature of things.
The concept asks you to become liberate Enough out of this attachment of worldly things or Maya and dissolve into the cosmos free from the worries related to these worldly things.
That concept of Maya in hindu Philosophy is completely a different stuff from simulation.
Also a word in literature ,I must mention, it is sometimes used for depicting misleading things that are created deliberately

I understand now. Thanks for clarifying.