I think this is normal. We want to navigate our world safely. That is why the fake humans are so disturbing. What has been more convincing in known human history than people assuring one another of what is or is not possible — of what has or has not happened, and which can be shared to help understand our world?molodyets wrote:I just really don't want to believe something that's not true. Strange human fear.
A fake human being (and I am not talking about story characters but surrogate animation that they are really trying to pass for human beings) — dead or alive — represents, essentially, the wish by its maker to completely subvert the wild, to conquer and upset and mislead human beings in our core values of what to trust and what not to trust — even if they would believe our "place" is as pets or as cattle to a super class of a self-styled "elite" group with a similar psychosis.
It would be different if they simply said, "this is a simulation" in plain language, when showing video of "Peter Joseph", the alleged creator of Zeitgeist or "Dylan Avery" an alleged creator of Loose Change. The combination of actors and CGI together is not merely "make up", and particularly when it is combined with fictional narrative backstopping. It is a political deception on par with, or even beyond, any lie the government accuses its citizens of, and claims the right to use the law against.
This is why a government that uses these lies is essentially de facto arguing for its own 'illegitimacy' and yet, at the same time, is perfectly embodying what imperial governments tend to do — which is apparently pretend to be magnanimous while doing everything they can to parasitically drain other cultures. To me, this is some kind of permanent "suicidal" mode, that (I would guess) some force has convinced the government to use through some form of pressure or coercion. And the ultimate culprit, I would guess, is something like a 'jingoism' that doesn't operate on reason but on a sort of bloodlust for oppressing others that fuels itself and the motivation to influence governments to become like them. I could be wrong. But I see we live in a topsy turvy world when hired mercenaries are called "heroes" before those actually doing humanitarian work.
Meanwhile, we must come to terms with the fact that there are psychotic people who lie to our faces because they feel the compulsion to benefit from lies. And these people would believe they benefit the most from using fake people to do their lying for them, in the new digital age.