Distressed because a familiar face from a media feed has gone dark?
Y’know, TV personalities, movie stars, online images, all are interchangeable. Having an emotional attachment to an image is self-sabotage, a sucker’s bet, notwithstanding “Pictures of Lilly” by The Who or “She’s Not There” by The Zombies.
You object, you defend your compassion for the hidden plight of an image taken off our feed? I say a given female discusser of news items, spin doctor, deliverer of approved stances, is possibly artificial.
“But she’s more than that.” You can’t stand thinking you’ve attached yourself to a manipulation. “She’s more than just cynical image.”
Uh, no, not necessarily. You do not know her. At ALL.
For all we know she’s an AI image. Might be legit, might be an actor, might not exist outside a digital program. No way for us to tell.
Often anchors are chosen, or created, because they will or are designed to tow the party line.
I’m aware of CNN’s idiotic recent adoption of the False Equivalence Doctrine, which as lost them viewers even as it strengthens its link to the fascists and their rabid magat swallowers and followers.
So keep in mind, CGI newsreaders have happened already in Japan years ago. Idoru, or Idols, singer and actors who are entirely digital, have been marketed into tremendous profits, taking the Pre-Fab Four, The Monkees, who were designed and cast to appeal to a teenybopper pop music audience, into the computer age. Now they don’t need actors or wanna-be musicians.
When the unpopular ones are cancelled, mass suicides result. Japanese teenagers are sophisticated about high tech and well know the Idoru is not a real, living person, yet remain emotionally involved, in love, and desperate about their cravings for ever more connection from media feeds.
Idoru are on magazines, covered in news reports, hold concerts, make personal appearances, all via CGI and holograms. They star in videos and films, “date” other celebrities, and flirt endlessly with their fans. They’ll write to you, send you underwear, and take very yen you have of both kinds.
You don’t know for sure anyone on a screen or text is a person. Or a she. Or real in any way beyond a marketing algorithm that continually refines its media tsunami to adjust to your every slight change.
Factually, none of us receivers of propaganda know what we’re experiencing, especially via our electronic media.
This is how a rabbit hole becomes worm hole.
Doubt is all anyone has.
Let’s get PKD – am I real? Is this me? Are YOU real? Do we exist outside a digital simulation? What original is being simulated? Is it entirely fictional, based on and rooted in nothing more than corporate marketing needs for ever more desperate consumers?
I could go on but it won’t matter. We’re in a buried box.
What’s Wrong? Is It My Hair?
“Popular” = promoted TV shows all pull the direction the FedGov wants. Pro military, might makes right, violence is golden, it’s “important” to defend “family values” (meaning man/woman/kid ONLY), and so on. We’re hemmed in by messaging we don’t come up with or control. Misfits are demonized, often destroyed. Conform or else.
Feeling better about your favorite personality having abruptly vanished from your media feeds?
Or was it YOU that vanished?
