Kinda fascinating how all new forms of mass-communication seem to be quickly followed by the distrust of that form of communication.
Not so because we as people distrust the form of communication itself, but because we distrust the common everyday person using it.
With the invention of language came along the thought, then the saying, then the life lesson, “You can’t trust everything you hear.” You can’t trust everything you hear not because you can’t trust what you’re hearing, but because you can’t always trust who’s editing the form of communication, language, to pass along false information. You can’t trust words blindly because people can easily make-up false words with their minds.
Now with the coming of the easily-edited image and body comes along today’s culture where everyone also holds the base belief, “You can’t trust everything you see.”
Wonder which of our next senses we’ll distrust next.
My money’s on smell. It’s a very marketable sense (cologne, perfume). It’ll be cool to see what sort of world develops from everyone being able to edit any smell as easily as we do images today. Going to have to start distrusting the smell of coffee brewing in the morning and of cookies fresh out the oven when I’m old and senile because of some damn marketers.