The Essence of Falsehood and Fakery: How to Pull off a Hoax
The ubiquitous presence of fakes is an undeniable truth. I mean technically. It sounds so pretentious to say that we are surrounded by fakes, as if they are lurking around every street, ready to snatch the wool and pull it over our eyes, but it’s inescapable to live without encountering at least one element of fraud somewhere. Films, novels, television, paintings magazine ads, magicians, technically are all forms of trickery, because they are fiction--or at least the most benevolent form of trickery that we openly want to be fooled by.
But then there is the art of the hoax, which unlike fiction the public despises, yet we are often easily fooled by. And why? Easily, the basic success …show more content…
It definitely sounded like Martians were invading the United States, so why would the public have any reason to doubt its authenticity? But also there is another factor. The experts. Frequently throughout the broadcast it refers to experts, science experts, government experts, and just the vague title ‘experts’, saying things like, “That’s what 's experts are saying, they are martians”. And just by saying the ‘experts’ believe something, people lly trust them believing they must be well established on something so they are bringing us the truth. But in reality, nobody in that broadcast had any expertise in the field of science or …show more content…
Expertism is something we have been fed from day one. Listen to the authorities they know better. Listen to your teacher, the authority on knowledge. Listen to your parents, they authority on life, on what is write and what is wrong. But the truth is, even your parents are fakes. From day one they have been lying to you about many things--mostly harmless things like babies come from storks (or as I thought, a baby store where you purchase children like pets) and that if we yell too loud we will wake the anonymous ‘baby’. But, most notably parents use the concept of ‘the bogeyman’. The function is simple, it’s a lie that will scare children away from misbehaving. The term bogeyman actually derives from a combination of the Middle English word, “boggle bugge” meaning bug
The ubiquitous presence of fakes is an undeniable truth. I mean technically. It sounds so pretentious to say that we are surrounded by fakes, as if they are lurking around every street, ready to snatch the wool and pull it over our eyes, but it’s inescapable to live without encountering at least one element of fraud somewhere. Films, novels, television, paintings magazine ads, magicians, technically are all forms of trickery, because they are fiction--or at least the most benevolent form of trickery that we openly want to be fooled by.
But then there is the art of the hoax, which unlike fiction the public despises, yet we are often easily fooled by. And why? Easily, the basic success …show more content…
It definitely sounded like Martians were invading the United States, so why would the public have any reason to doubt its authenticity? But also there is another factor. The experts. Frequently throughout the broadcast it refers to experts, science experts, government experts, and just the vague title ‘experts’, saying things like, “That’s what 's experts are saying, they are martians”. And just by saying the ‘experts’ believe something, people lly trust them believing they must be well established on something so they are bringing us the truth. But in reality, nobody in that broadcast had any expertise in the field of science or …show more content…
Expertism is something we have been fed from day one. Listen to the authorities they know better. Listen to your teacher, the authority on knowledge. Listen to your parents, they authority on life, on what is write and what is wrong. But the truth is, even your parents are fakes. From day one they have been lying to you about many things--mostly harmless things like babies come from storks (or as I thought, a baby store where you purchase children like pets) and that if we yell too loud we will wake the anonymous ‘baby’. But, most notably parents use the concept of ‘the bogeyman’. The function is simple, it’s a lie that will scare children away from misbehaving. The term bogeyman actually derives from a combination of the Middle English word, “boggle bugge” meaning bug