Who or what created the universe

[Belacqua]

"Get everyone playing the same game, allow them to become engrossed in the game to the point where they forget about time, humans no longer perceive time, time ceases to be a thing, all financial incentives for perpetuating "time" (as a shared reality) become obsolete, everyone stays happy playing the game forever."

If I construe the above as a poem which needs creative unpacking, I like it very much indeed. Forgive me if I read into it more than you intend. 

So I can take the word "game" in a very broad sense. (Hello Mr. Wittgenstein.) It's an activity conducted according to a set of rules that are made up by people. It's nomos (culture, tradition) rather than physis (laws of nature). So the game is not physically binding on us, as gravity is, but following its rules is an ethical duty for those who agree to participate. 

As for the perception of time, I agree that a "flow state" in which we don't think about time is a great experience. Free-flowing creative endeavors or good sex, for example. But I don't see how a whole human life can be in such a peak state very long. 

There is another sense, though, in which time might cease to rule us: we could learn to give value to more than our own time and place, and feel we are a part of the whole flow of history. And, most importantly, to feel a strong sense of duty both to those who came before and those who will come after.

Currently this is not a widespread value; we do not feel responsibility to those who came before. We live in an era when throwing out all the old institutions is taken as some kind of moral good -- again, it's a liberal meliorist myth (compatible with scientism) that society is slowly but surely making itself better. We constantly see old institutions, that were made for good reasons, being mocked and straw-manned -- without the awareness that people before us, though they knew less of technology, knew some things that we don't. This allows us to over-value our own contingent desires, and ignore the lessons of history. Which in turn makes us less responsible to those who will come later. And of course capitalism can only function if we don't think about its future ramifications. 

So yes: participation in a society-wide engrossing social system, not based on personal gain, and not aimed at only out own time. A lovely prescription.