06-28-2017, 06:57 PM
(06-28-2017, 06:28 PM)Dill Wrote: Either way, putting a fake Time cover on the wall like is just another example of how he constructs a relation between himself and an imagined, desired reality. If you can do it in pictures or on tv then it's real.
Sometimes he seems to think if publicly tweets or says things that aren't true about a subject and enough people defend him to create an "alternate" narrative then a saturation point is reached in which he himself can believe the alternative narrative. When both narratives are in the media then they can be equal real.
Propagandists have always know they could do this with mass audiences, but generally they well understood the difference between what was true and what was made up.
What I am saying is that Trump himself is swept into the illusion. He lives in it. And it works, if by that we mean it is politically effective, keeps support under Trump and Republican lawmakers. If I can get enough photoshopped pictures on my wall and enough people to believe I won the Decathelon in the 84 Olympics then eventually I can believe it too.
I'm reminded of countless toddlers (and developmentally disabled persons) who think when they cover their own eyes that others in the room can no longer see them. It's cute at a certain age and/or in the right context. Coming from Our President, it is down right disturbing.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
