> the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My

> the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans. People love a good story and Philip K. Dick knows this well, he writes stories to convey these thoughts through fake realities. Entertaining stories, movies, narratives and 'fake news' essentially, simplifies the world into a good/bad structure and let's you in on the good side. People love a tub of confirmation bias to bask in. It is the same situation as to why good news doesn't end up on the nightly news. Good news can make people feel worse. Watch HGTV for a while then look at your house and you can't help but feel less than, same with too much good news. People like a story, stories sell, facts and the entropy of existentialism is too much for some people all the time or many. Same reason religion exists, it is a simplification that allows people to be 'good' and frees up mindspace to think about less jarring things. Whether the story is lying and fake or entertainment, people like it because life can take you into areas that are reality which is messy and sometimes completely out of your control, a good story is a gift. America and the world, could also be going through a Hypernormalisation moment. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation