If you account videos as a proof of anything, then, you are too late with your concern.
Videos, pictures or words are not proof, in the best case they are supplement material or a hints for something. Facts you didn't witness by yourself are discovered by their consequences and things around them.
There's an underlying problem of much longer standing than CGI or DeepFake technology or whatever else. It's that people have nearly no awareness that they might be being deceived.
There are many, many historical photos all the way back to the Civil War (which nearly takes us back to the invention of photography) that are fake. How could they possibly have withstood scrutiny all these decades, long before any modern tech was available to create near flawless phonies? Simple: they were never, ever scrutinized.
The problem is actually even deeper than that. You can point out the obvious flaws and they still do not "get it". Why? Not quite so simple as the last: their worldview--because of fear and/or limits to their imaginative ability--cannot accommodate even entertaining the concept that they have been so universally deceived.
Everyone chooses their own reality, and they cling to it like a man in the middle of the ocean clings to a floating door. Few can bring themselves to let go and try to swim on their own, or even just stand up and realize the water was only four feet deep to begin with. They rant and curse at any who do so as idiots or madmen.
Good. No one gives a shit about truth anyway. It doesn’t matter what does and doesn’t exist.
a) truth (wanting suggested) or lie (not wanting suggested) or change (needing perceivable)...it's ones free will of choice what to respond to.
b) MAT'TER, noun (Latin materia; Heb. to measure) + MEASURE, noun (Latin mensura) - "whole extent".
Being implies partial (perception) within whole (perceivable)...measuring others tempts one to ignore being proportion (growth) within measure (loss).
"post truth world"
well, Mr. Emory Tate, when was "truth world"?
If you account videos as a proof of anything, then, you are too late with your concern.
Videos, pictures or words are not proof, in the best case they are supplement material or a hints for something. Facts you didn't witness by yourself are discovered by their consequences and things around them.
There's an underlying problem of much longer standing than CGI or DeepFake technology or whatever else. It's that people have nearly no awareness that they might be being deceived.
There are many, many historical photos all the way back to the Civil War (which nearly takes us back to the invention of photography) that are fake. How could they possibly have withstood scrutiny all these decades, long before any modern tech was available to create near flawless phonies? Simple: they were never, ever scrutinized.
The problem is actually even deeper than that. You can point out the obvious flaws and they still do not "get it". Why? Not quite so simple as the last: their worldview--because of fear and/or limits to their imaginative ability--cannot accommodate even entertaining the concept that they have been so universally deceived.
Everyone chooses their own reality, and they cling to it like a man in the middle of the ocean clings to a floating door. Few can bring themselves to let go and try to swim on their own, or even just stand up and realize the water was only four feet deep to begin with. They rant and curse at any who do so as idiots or madmen.