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rrneck

(17,671 posts)
Mon Feb 17, 2014, 12:18 AM Feb 2014

Just a quick note about images in popular culture...

It's fiction. All of it. From beer commercials to the nightly news every image you see that's not actual footage of something happening in real time is fake. It's been worked, massaged, bumped, tweaked, and manipulated beyond anything that could be considered real.

Magazine covers - fiction.

Television - fiction.

Movies - fiction.

Remind yourself and teach your children that it ain't real. You'll be happier.

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Just a quick note about images in popular culture... (Original Post) rrneck Feb 2014 OP
Indeed! 2naSalit Feb 2014 #1
Fiction? Maedhros Feb 2014 #2
Fiction can be instructive. rrneck Feb 2014 #3
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