False Reality Quotes

“To us, reality is just raw footage: Unclear. Desultory. Too shocking or not quite shocking enough. It’s ironic that making something more real involves making it less real, but Gideon always says people don’t want real. They want the idea of real, which involves production.”
― Paula Stokes, Vicarious

“With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere on earth but at home. A curious condition of a republic based roughly on
the original Roman model is that it cannot allow true political parties to share in government. What then is a true political party: one that is based firmly in the interest of a class be it workers or fox hunters. Officially we have two parties which are in fact wings of a common
party of property with two right wings. Corporate wealth finances each. Since the property party controls every aspect of media they have had decades to create a false reality for a citizenry largely uneducated by public schools that teach conformity with an occasional advanced degree in consumerism.”
― Gore Vidal

“To successfully create illusion, the first thing you need is trust, but to perfect an illusion, the false reality most appear as authentic as the one it hides. Careful attention must be paid to every detail. The slightest of imperfections can, like a pin to a balloon, burst the illusion . . . and the truth behind the illusion becomes revealed.”
― Emily Thorne

“Live life with no filters.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“Dreams are getting surreal, I don’t know what’s real anymore.”
― Snow Liber Dionysus

“The powers that be no longer have to stifle information. They can now overload us with so much of it, there's no way to know what's factual or not. The ability to be an informed public is only going to worsen with advancing deep fake technology.

Incriminating audio and video will hold even less weight than it already does. A government doesn't have to lie to its people or censor its enemies when no one believes a thing to begin with.

We're entering the Post-Information Age.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker

“If there is nothing that needs correcting in the world memory, the only thing left to do is to correct reality where it doesn't agree with that memory.”
― Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics

“Men have always fought their misery with dreams. Although dreams were once powerful, they have been made puerile by the movies, radio and newspapers. Among many betrayals, this is the worst.”
― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

“The power of an illusion or delusion is that the mind races and the heart pounds in fear of the imagined, the unreal truth. During psychosis and extreme mental illness, the mind’s reality undergoes a breach; and the mind, the Great Fort, is itself broken.”
― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel

“Psychiatry is a hoax.

…political construct of gaslighting to let people continue thinking a certain way.

…it is fantasy because it could have easily been elsehow.

Professionals… suspects of crimes of false realities.”
― Maria Karvouni, Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

“A photograph is reality taken out of context.”
― Criss Jami

“I learn certain events can trigger illnesses in anyone’s brain that would have otherwise lain dormant for the patients entire lifetime. At any point, any one of us might take a wrong turn and tip over into a false reality. A wrong marriage, a bad break up, a mix up at the DMV and our lives might be different forever.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir – A New York Times Notable Book of Intergenerational Trauma, Race, and Understanding

“The fastest way for a person to fail is to think they are the exception to the rule of life and circumstances they created.”
― Sasha Laghonh