Nah, no way. The Metaverse is the collective human unconscious, right? You can't destroy that; humans wouldn't be around if you did.

[ At least, that's what makes sense to him? He doesn't understand it any better than the kids do, really; probably less so. ]

Well... Apathy Syndrome started... I want to say sometime in the late two-thousands? It was pretty bad; people would just collapse, and not be able to take care of themselves. They couldn't speak, or do anything really; it's like their minds had completely shutdown.