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Movies are a contemporary example of the cave wall because viewers treat projected shadows as reality.
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Movies
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "That's what concerts are. That's what movies are, right? So Coachella is just like a high -end version, but like a low -end version..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "That's what concerts are. That's what movies are, right? So Coachella is just like a high -end version, but like a low -end version..."
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Jiang uses Steve Jobs, movies, and Donald Trump as examples of narrative or image systems that make people participate in a constructed reality.
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Jiang says concerts and movies function as energy-harvesting rituals, with events like Coachella serving as a more upscale version of the same underlying mechanism.
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"That's what concerts are. That's what movies are, right? So Coachella is just like a high -end version, but like a low -end version..."
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"...is reality. Okay? So an example of this of course is movies."
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"We watch movies and we think this is a reality. Okay? So the question then is why are these people making this effort to..."
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"All right, so this is a hard concept to understand, but let's use some examples to better understand this concept. So the first example..."
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"...participate in this myth. Okay? Another example is the idea of movies. Right? Movies are reality creation machines. When you go see a movie,..."
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