Movies are a contemporary example of the cave wall because viewers treat projected shadows as reality.
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Movies are a contemporary example of the cave wall because viewers treat projected shadows as reality.
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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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"...is reality. Okay? So an example of this of course is movies."
"We watch movies and we think this is a reality. Okay? So the question then is why are these people making this effort to..."
"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..."
"...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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