[sunkencity]

clearly the author is not hip to The Human Evasion by Celia Green. Those guys were just all OK with choosing a slightly different reality, because the mainstream reality tunnel is also equally flawed, and less interesting

  Human beings live in a state of mind called 'sanity' 
  on a small planet in space. They are not quite sure 
  whether the space around them is infinite or not (either 
  way it is unthinkable). If they think about time, they 
  find it inconceivable that it had a beginning. It is 
  also inconceivable that it did not have a beginning. 
  Thoughts of this kind are not disturbing to 'sanity', 
  which is obviously a remarkable phenomenon and deserving 
  more recognition.

http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/humevas.html