We Falsely Interpret The World

A Lot Of The Distinctions That We Make Between Drama And Documentary Are Spurious. We're Deeply Confused About These Issues. About The Difference Between The Two, About Where Documentary Ends And Drama Begins.

Nothing Is So Obvious That It's Obvious.

People Often Trust Low-res Images Because They Look More Real. But Of Course They Are Not More Real, Just Easier To Fake. [...] You Never See A 10-megapixel Photograph Of Big Foot Or The Abominable Snowman Or The Loch Ness Monster.

We Imagine What This Country Is, But Quite Clearly, This Country Is A Mystery. I Mean, One Of The Reasons I Did The Election Ads Is, I Thought I Could Learn Something. Like, What The Hell Is Going On? I Think Anybody - Particularly A Person Of Leftist Persuasion Such As Myself - Who Stops And Thinks Even For A Moment, Realizes That Something Strange Is Going On And We Don't Quite Get It.

If You Want To Trick Someone With A Photograph, There Are Lots Of Easy Ways To Do It. You Don't Need Photoshop. You Don't Need Sophisticated Digital Photo-manipulation. You Don't Need A Computer. All You Need To Do Is Change The Caption.