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Yes..."$"...that has driven us all insane...
The fear of no $ has driven us ...
Originally posted by DaddyBare
You bet and in this day of Photoshop and CGI making it possible to custom tailor said image to a single person I'd say its darn easy to do!
You said :
Herbert plagarised this from Orwell's 1984.
Fear is the mind killer.
I'd turn around and say the opposite. I'd say an image could have done that before we became such an image aware society, but with hundreds of thousands of pictures facing us every day (30 frames per second on TV, every newspaper, magazine or billboard we might encounter, every ad on every website we visit...) I think we're immune to actually "going crazy" because of an image. We're aware enough to know that what we see in a flat image IS NOT reality. It's not like the early days of motion pictures when there was a riot because someone had a movie of a train going into the theater...
Originally posted by DaddyBare
You bet and in this day of Photoshop and CGI making it possible to custom tailor said image to a single person I'd say its darn easy to do!
1984 is a good read, if you haven't been there, I'd recommend it.