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People are bad. They lie. They don't say who they are. And they spread falsehoods deliberately.
People are bad. They lie. They don't say who they are. And they spread falsehoods deliberately.
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Anthony DiPierro
“People are bad. They lie. They don’t say who they are. And they spread falsehoods deliberately.”
Umm, a *few* people. We’re not all like that .
Barry Kort
Once upon a time, human beings invented the art of crafting make-believe stories. For many centuries, these make-believe stories were the primary means of transmitting cultural knowledge from one generation to the next.
In the 20th Century, the art of crafting make-believe stories evolved from the bardic arts to become high-tech multimedia presentations in radio dramas, motion pictures, and television.
Now the entertainment industry is learning how to exploit the Internet to raise make-believe to the next level. Just as Sasha Baron-Cohen has demonstrated how to blur the boundaries between fantasy and reality, so too have many erstwhile performers turned to the Internet to do the same.
Ron Livinsgton may be a real actor who appears in conventional entertainment media, wherein he portrays a fictional character in a fictional world. But through the artifice of Wikipedia and the Internet, the invisible hand of yet another mysterious author has produced a fantastic episode that bridges the misty divide between fact and fiction.
We would all be wise to heed these sage words of advice:
“Be ye not bamboozled.” –The Big Bamboozler
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