What are we creating?From the dawn of civilization, humans have bragged about their accomplishments. As the story was told over and over again it got bigger and better with each retelling, carrying it on to new people. Writing took the inconsistency out of the story but made story telling boring again. Then in the Twentieth Century man learned how to tell the story with pictures and Hollywood was born.Now throughout history man has had war and violence, without the cinematic perspective to shed light to the horrors. Only artist renderings from a distance that obscured the detailed drama that played out on the battlefield. An invention that could show the world what a cruel and heartless race we could be, instead we decided to write fictional characters that live unusual lives
based on reality but in the most extreme cases. Myths and legends, stories of battle and conquests were based on events that happened far away and long ago. But in some form or the other the story was based on an actual event or person. Armageddon, not the Biblical, but a fanciful depiction of an Earth shattering asteroid on a course to wipeout the human race was a blockbuster hit. Some people still do not know that an asteroid was what killed the Dinosaurs. Again, one of the most powerful forms of communication is reduced to Gross Points and Box Office numbers. It is nearly equivalent to the Valley Girl butchering of the language to an unrecognizable form of semiotic English, like yea know? It has been put forth that Hollywood only dramatizes the reality of the world we liv
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