09-12-2009, 07:21 PM
McLuhan wrote about television and moving images as becoming ever more the main source of experience for most people. I've noticed people really do think they know what happened after watching films like Gandhi, JFK, Malcolm X or the Killing Fields, or even the Year of Living Dangerously. The cinematic experience of a drama stands in for knowledge of facts for most people these days. This is a dangerous confusion of reality and fantasy, the imposition of psychosis on the masses who have been trained not to treat the experience of moving images, their experience within the media stream, critically.