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Most people are susceptible to manipulation through visual media—ask anyone in advertising.
Live long enough and people from your past will echo, calling back to you years after they have left you behind.
After all, there is nothing so deadly, so ultimately terminal, as being alive.
“Information control is the name of the game. It is the game. Some people think it’s money, but it’s no money at all. Information is what gets ye money.”
There was no way to predict how people would take news that required them to shift their paradigms. Most of the time such news just bounced off them, the way horrific shite about a candidate bounces off a party’s faithful because they can’t face the fact that they voted for a monster and they may in fact be monsters themselves. Easier to just deny it all, call it fake news. No introspection required.
“What? I cannae watch telly? What am I supposed tae do, then?” [Read.] “For fun? Oh, I’ve heard of that.”
How much of the world could burn down, I wondered, while football was on the telly? How much magic and wonder was missed while people were distracted by something flickering on their screens?
I subscribe to the theory that answers cannot hide from us forever if we seek them long enough.
