Media

A platform that spreads Ideology.

Works because people don’t realize they’re fabricated, not a depiction of reality, and, like with VR, reflexively merge.

What Augustine said holds as true of media as of dreams: you first believe, then you understand (i.e. can question). The default is to believe, else it wouldn’t work.

Suspension of disbelief.

VR.

Media.

It enters fluently and it takes disfluency to question it.

Date

March 6, 2023

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