Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In “The Image: A Guide To Pseudo-Events In America,” Daniel Boorstin writes how the world has recently experienced momentous changes in its news and perception of reality. According to Boorstin, much of the world’s wealth, technology, so-called progress, and modernism have created a “thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life.”(1) He further warns how such illusions can lead to a kind of national self-hypnosis which is induced by individual addiction to the market place of images and a demand for the illusions which flood human experience. This came to mind when a prisoner swap was made between 1000…
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