No - we are not living in a simulation, in the same way we were never visited by those flying saucers in the 1950s.
First comes The Exorcist, and then we get 'satanic panic'.
Some people - often women - started to discover that pharmaceuticals could be extracted from certain plants, and then we were burning witches.
Our belief in "things paranormal" tends to move in step with the sci-fi ooky-spooky style of the contemporary culture, and the simulation thing only appeared when The Matrix did.
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