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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (175592)	7/31/2021 4:09:22 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219414

It is pretty funny, that aspect of the relationship people have with the truth... Or, the degree to which habituation to trust enables simple deceptions to work... until people become accustomed to the new "hack" of their overly trusting brains... It's not different than the link you posted recently to "changed" approach to media ? The presentation of an assumed to be documentary... with features more typical of entertainment programming ? Orson Wells famous radio presentation of the "War of the Worlds"... had the impact it did for that reason, that people simply assumed "it its on the radio, it must be true"... because of trust ? Now an over used meme, not that long ago it was actually true that a shockingly large number of people behaved on the basis of "I saw it on the internet, so it must be true"... or, otherwise, trusted computer based products. Other shifts like that... Blair Witch Project... play on people's habituation to the situational aspect of the presentations defining for them, without thinking, what to make of the content ? Today, of course, people are fully accustomed to those presentation styles... and don't interpret them as necessarily conveying truth... but laugh at those who were duped by them ? The "some of the people, all of the time" issue is still there... but, the "all of the people, some of the time" issue shows that the means employed in simple exploits of that nature... don't wear well... The lie you tell today... by new means employed to deflect suspicion while tapping into intrinsic trust... will be exposed as transparent soon enough. Hard to believe, today... that people used to trust politicians... and the media ?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (175592)	7/31/2021 10:21:30 PM
From: sense	1 Recommendation Recommended By pak73 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219414

There are times when you can believe your eyes... That's almost always true... in the case of being first on the scene... before others are aware there is an event... and well before anyone figures out there's a need for a cover-up ? Whistleblowers... exposing information from inside... tend to be believable... because the information they have is the information they don't want you to have... ? Whatever people think of Snowden now... no one quibbles about the fact that what he exposed... was illegal spying on citizens... showing that they were doing what they said they weren't doing... Snowden could believe his eyes... because of his position on the inside of the effort made to mask the truth ?