So I was at Trader Joe's today and the cashier and I got into a conversation about the just released Spider Man 3 and all of the new cool special effects.
As I often do, I made an off the wall comment. "Yeah, special effects are getting REALLY good. It is almost too hard to tell what is real and what is not in these movies. Kinda scary if we had a totalitarian government that wanted to lie to us; what they could do with special effects."
Just think of all the wonderful propaganda the GOV could make. You could have crowds of supporters with no one there. You could have the Russians invade without an invasion and tell everyone to evacuate into a large building.
Just look at 'The War of the Worlds' radio broadcast on Halloween of 1938. People were stirred to mass hysteria by radio. Now that we have such realistic special effects imagine the same broadcast over T.V. Or if the GOV really wanted to scare us into our houses what kind of "WAR" footage they could make. No wonder some people believe that we never landed on the moon.
P.S. I think that the newest movie, "War of the World's" with Tom Cruise, should have been shot like a news broadcast.
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Have you seen "Wag the Dog?" Pretty good movie...
Have you seen "Wag the Dog?" Pretty good movie...
That is something to ponder on there...what if we never landed on the moon? What if nothing was ever real...Hold Me! (and by hold me i mean mandy, and i dont mean hold me, i mean do the toe...do it..do it i say!!)
But no, what if everything we ever learned in school and everything we are being fed is not real, like the Truman Show...what if we are nothing more than puppets...but then, whats the alternative?
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