In regards to your last point, I believe experiments in human psychology have shown that the lines are quite blurred when it comes to fiction vs reality w/ sens

In regards to your last point, I believe experiments in human psychology have shown that the lines are quite blurred when it comes to fiction vs reality w/ sensory input. Unless one holds some principle that is able to supersede any given perceived "facts", fiction easily becomes truth, and even then it's a real struggle. We have been studied, we have been found flawed, and those flaws are exploited for monetary gain as a matter of course.