brianv wrote:Are we becoming like the doctor who treats the Symptom but not the Disease or the Man?
hoi.polloi wrote:I see it like we are like the friend who tries to help their friend realize they are not well
Yeah BV & HP - I guess somebody has to prove to humanity, with a video experience perhaps, that humanity currently does indeed have the mental disease of foolishly assuming the computer graphic animated forged images shown on television news channels are evidence of actual events.
To prove this fact one could create a computer graphic animation experience which actually fools the viewer for awhile, and then suddenly reveals the fact that the viewer was fooled, perhaps this experience will help prove to humanity the existence of this mental disease. "You were fooled by CGI just now, here is the evidence. And we all were fooled by CGI in 2001, here is the evidence. And we have discovered CGI forgeries televised by mainstream media many times from 2001 through 2015, here is the evidence."
I think what you two are wisely pointing at indirectly, is the fact that even AFTER that powerful video experience is created (which I hope you two unite with Simon to create over the next year), that even AFTER it has been proven to humanity that this mental disease exists (the mental disease of assuming that news channels don't televise computer graphic images) that even that itself might be a symptom of an even DEEPER mental disease.
Perhaps the deeper underlying mental disease is that humanity naively assumes that the world's richest 100 humans somehow LACK the inherent motive and ability to pay for trusted sources to vouch for forged images.
Perhaps the even deeper underlying mental disease is that humanity assumes that we should not DO SOMETHING about the fact that all 7 billion humans living on earth today could, all at the exact same time, enjoy a much better life (a quantifiable million times better life, do the calculation) if we were to reset the capitalism competition starting point, right here, right now: by suddenly justly dividing evenly into 7 billion parts ALL of the earth's resources fairly to each living human.
Songs need to be sung which describe the million-times-better-life that 6,999,999,900 humans can enjoy right now, immediately, as soon as we are ready to grab it, by simply redistributing the wealth currently unlawfully held by the world's richest 100 humans.
After The Big Reset (which is coming, it is just a matter of WHEN) then with each of the humans standing at the same fair starting point (meaning each human allocated randomly equal trade-able amounts of arable land and gold), then from that moment the competition will begin freshly.
It will be interesting for all of humanity to see, after The Big Reset, that the 100 humans who previously were unlawfully hoarding 99.99% of humanity's resources, will have a difficult time zooming past the rest of humanity in the subsequent Post-Reset capitalism competition.
Stripped of all the hoarded capital which they inherited from their ancestors who didn't earn it lawfully, no longer able to simply profit from inherited inequality, no longer able to lazily earn capital by merely having inherited more capital, these 100 will be forced by The Big Reset to rejoin humanity in an actual competition of the minds: in which humanity rewards those who actually produce the best contributions to the overall happiness of humanity. :-)
Possible summary: Media-fakery is a symptom of some humans having the resources which give the ability to bribe/fool/create the various channels of trusted-sources, and that ability itself is a symptom the world's richest 100 humans owning 99.99% of the earth's resources.
Reducing the fakery-ability requires reducing the bribery-ability, which requires reducing the current-inequality-level. The current-inequality-level has reached an absolutely crazy proportion: 6,999,999,990 regular-humans owning a tiny fraction of the amount the 100 richest unlawfully-hoarding-humans currently control in early 2015.
The Big Reset is coming, it has been imagined, it is being shared, it will happen. Whether it happens quickly or slowly, or right away suddenly all at once, the speed of change is up to us, the regular majority, to take righteous lawful action.
To increase humanity's chances of survival and to increase individual happiness, we are immediately getting our minds clear of the old mistake/disease: the mental disease of believing the richest 100 humans' fakery-images which are broadcast worldwide by the "trusted sources".
Or maybe what is being pointed at by Brian and Hoi is that the disease goes even deeper, beyond all of the external problem of the forged images being televised, into the fact that we humans make the internal mistake of trusting any story-telling-sources in the first place.
Possible Solution: from now on, we should only trust what one can see in the 100 meter bubble around ones own self, because digital images can no longer be trusted.
Only what we see in our daily 100 meter bubble is proven. Every other story that comes in, about a supposed event reported to be occurring elsewhere OUTSIDE your 100 meter bubble of reality, is just that: a mere story which is possibly and probably fiction.
And, just to end on a positive note - even though we all have inherited just a tiny fraction of what is rightfully ours - I would like to report some good news (although, since digital-words are just as evidence-less as digital-images, make sure you don't believe these words, but instead go outside and check your own reality bubble for yourself to see if they ring true) that the small sample of humans that I physically interact with each day are on average quite nice, and are rarely hurting other humans, and are instead usually helping other humans, just like me, to have a pleasant experience, to have a good time, to have a nice day.
In the world of hollywood/media/internet stories, the majority of the stories claim that the majority of humans selfishly deprive happiness regardless of the sadness of others, but in the reality bubble I see everyday: the majority of humans altruistically gain happiness from seeing the happiness of others. 
