Gail Helen Bremner

Everything You See Is Fake

Posted on June 5th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Omnia Vanitas, Technology, Random, Television.

The other day, I was talking to a friend about the absence of realistic expectations in our world — everything is supposed to taste better, look better, be better, then it actually is. We got very grandiose in our thinking, discussing the human impulse toward greatness and expansion that is foiled by physics and biology, the influence of overly praise-full child-rearing on our ability to judge the success and failure of our own actions, and of course the simple and inevitable decline of civilization back into the primordial ooze. No, we hadn’t been drinking, just watching too much TV, which is probably why we forgot to include one of the true perpetrators of unreality — digital technology and the empty gods of advertising and entertainment it serves. I “StumbledUpon” something that made this very clear, this lovely video: Everything You See Is Fake. Watch it, and then go outside and stick your hand in the dirt for awhile. That might quell the shaking in your guts.

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