It's the artifice of presentation that gets me. The color's not real, the filled in scratches aren't real, and once upon a time a photographer sat and composed

It's the artifice of presentation that gets me. The color's not real, the filled in scratches aren't real, and once upon a time a photographer sat and composed the shot in the first place. It's an artist illustration of history. Which is fine, those are important to have. But it's too easy to forget that it's not reality. As the production value of video gets better (in general, not just historical film), people forget the little bit of McLuhan they once half-understood. And the more time we spending looking at screens, the more we WANT to forget that the pictures on the screen don't reflect reality. For example: go tweet what you really think about the world. About politics, about sex, about all the white lies we tell eachother to keep society functioning. Don't want to? OK, now ask yourself why you treat anything you read as less artificially constrained than what you, a relative nobody, are willing to tweet.