That's a good example. They do the same thing with many children in the Middle East and Africa. Also here in Latin America.
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control
But I'd like to take it to its most radical level. Have you ever seen or heard about a topic and suddenly places you frequent or people you talk to bring up or mention that topic as if they've always known about it or been there?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Experts will say it's because when we touch on a topic, we're more attentive to when it reappears. It's like you've been walking past that Coca-Cola billboard your whole life, but only when you drank the drink did you begin to realize it was advertising for that company. However, you still have a strange feeling that everything now revolves around your interests or vision. (A strategic deception of the brain, they'll argue.)
Well, The Truman Show would take it to the radical level that it's not an accidental topic, nor a change in perception.
With what arguments, in the Cartesian style, could we refute that we are not part of a show or something worse? (I honestly find that impossible.)
>The truth will set you free
Oh, I made a huge mistake with your post. Bernd, especially your pics. But anyway, here's the thing:
But I take it to the most psychosocial (not physical) extreme. What if what surrounds us is a staged scene? Like The Truman Show, The Matrix, or The Island.
But especially The Truman Show. Could you rationally escape that?
I know you see moving on as an option. But I don't know if that answers my question.
