Shows like this intentionally get ahead of the truth. What happens when fiction beats the truth to the timeline? People that aren't woke (which is prob 99.9% of their audience), will consume this episode as fiction thereby making it much harder to believe the truth when and if it's finally revealed. This episode sets up/creates cognitive dissonance thereby creating one more barrier to overcome for people to actually accept the truth.
Manchurian candidate? Fact or fiction? It's easy to dismiss it as fiction since it's already been presented as such. It's like when kids first discover Santa isn't real. It's a process of disbelief, unlearning and then re-learning. The sad thing is most adults don't get past the disbelief part in the process to ever come close to the truth.
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unrealisthenewreal ago
Shows like this intentionally get ahead of the truth. What happens when fiction beats the truth to the timeline? People that aren't woke (which is prob 99.9% of their audience), will consume this episode as fiction thereby making it much harder to believe the truth when and if it's finally revealed. This episode sets up/creates cognitive dissonance thereby creating one more barrier to overcome for people to actually accept the truth.
FuckReddit69 ago
Very well said man, and very true. Right on target. I wonder what else they've used this trick on that we think is true.
unrealisthenewreal ago
Manchurian candidate? Fact or fiction? It's easy to dismiss it as fiction since it's already been presented as such. It's like when kids first discover Santa isn't real. It's a process of disbelief, unlearning and then re-learning. The sad thing is most adults don't get past the disbelief part in the process to ever come close to the truth.