Everything is Deep Fake now in the West
Nothing is Honest, Nothing is Genuine, Nothing is Real Anymore
Another my three-year old piece which turned out to be prescient.
Just like one actor from Mandalorian played Luke Skywalker using 'deep fake' technology, it seems similar technology is used everywhere in the West. It seems that there's nothing truthful, nothing genuine, nothing honest left in all Western society.
Take media. They are fake news now, all of them, mostly Left but oftentimes right too. There're no more trustworthy sources who do honest journalism left, not major ones at least. You don't find a truth in Western media any longer, only political propaganda, selective coverage, opinionated journalism, and downright lies and fakes. You don't know whom to trust any longer, and what to trust.
Take movie industry. There's no talent left there, no genuine cool stories and movies. No, all the movie directors care for now is to represent all skin colors and all 72 genders in every movie, not about actual plot and talented actors. It reflected in the drastic decrease of Hollywood movie quality (and other biggest movie/television giants like HBO or Netflix as well). They don't even make that many new movies now, only endless remakes, sequels and prequels to old great movies and series. They constantly milk the old cow because they're incapable to produce anything new, anything of quality at least. There's no talent and no brain left in Hollywood, only political correctness and mediocrities. There's no genuine cool ideas left there either, only countless plagiarism from old great movies like the one JJ Abrams applied in his Star Wars 'trilogy' mutilation. Sad, very sad indeed.
Take people themselves. You find genuine and honest people who speak their mind less and less often. Toxic cancel culture and Big Tech censorship prevents people from speaking their mind. Instead, they constantly lie and hide, agreeing with toxic Woke agenda just in order not to be canceled, deplatformed, not to lose their jobs and livelihoods. So there's no honesty and sincerity left, just hypocrisy and political correctness. Sad, very sad, and very disappointing.
Even global challenges which we are fighting against are deep fakes. The establishment created an unprecedented hysteria over a virus with a very low mortality rate, and had done much more damage to the whole humanity by its 'fighting the pandemic' than this pandemic could ever have done on its own. But most of the people are perceiving an actually not that dangerous virus as a 'biggest threat' while accepting as 'absolutely necessary' unprecedented restrictions on their basic rights and freedoms which are the true and very serious danger to them. The establishment also shifts responsibility for the climate crisis from biggest corporate polluters onto the individuals who are next to innocent climate wise, and demand more and more sacrifices from individuals which they also accept as 'necessary' being duped by media and establishment deep fake yet again.
So I'm really so tired of all this shit. I'm so angry at our corrupt establishment, corporations and media for their toxic deep fake propaganda. I'm angry at common people for being so naive and gullible as to swallow all this propaganda without questioning it. I'm scared for our future, for the future of our generation. Not because of any viruses or climate mind you but because of what corrupt global establishment can do to us in order to 'fight pandemics and climate change'. Medical and ecological fascism based on deep fake media propaganda is coming, and we're helpless to stop it because most of the people don't take this shit seriously, duped by media deep fake propaganda. And pretty soon it would be too late to try to stop this shit. Sigh.
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.
A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.
And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."
Hannah Arendt
German historian and philosopher
(1906 - 1975)
I agree. Have to fight my inclination to be disheartened. 😔 My kids remind me it’s important to keep trying.