Special effects news tonight

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.

The We Control

It is interesting that it seems that we, as consumers, are gaining more control. At least that is what we are being told. For example, CURRENT TV. You can upload a video that you have made and people can vote if it is worthy of TV. If it is, it gets aired on a cable station controlled by CURRENT TV which is GOOGLE.

So YAY we have control. But do we really? Control of what? Control of our choices but not necessarily our options. Sure we may be able to some what control what we consume and what we buy...

It is not exactly clear to me what is going on BUT it does seem that if I were the one who is really in control and I had other people who wanted to be in control; I would simply give them the illusion of control. This way they may be satisfied and not take away my control.