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Originally posted by spinningfetus
I think television and especially digital special effects have altered our peception of things like reality and truth to such a degree that the defintions that were in place fifteen or twenty years ago are no longer applicable.
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Having actually been around twenty years ago, I gotta say I don't think the general perceptions of reality and truth changed as much over that timespan as you seem to think they did.
In fact, my own view is that these technical advances serve to *illustrate* the importance of bearing honest witness rather than making that notion obsolete or even significantly different from what it was. After all, twenty years ago was only 1982....when you were five years old. Isn't it more likely that what's changed over that timespan was more your *own* perception of things like "reality" and "truth"? C'mon, it's not like everybody's gone "oooh, we have CGI movies and VR and Photoshop now, so the underpinings of world are totally different, there is no truth and reality is completely relative."
BS is still BS, and it still smells.