In old movies, sometimes humanity came together to meet the alien threat. We have never needed an alien threat more desperately. Or zombies. Or even wookies or vampire accountants. We need to take our minds off each other. Because we cannot keep sniping at each other like this.
We might start by agreeing that any evidence that does not match our preconceived notion of the truth should not be reflexively rejected. Just because a person doesn’t like the evidence, that doesn’t make the pictures on the screen into deep fakes. I understand how tough this is. Hell, we’ve reached the point where we can make Godzilla look real.
So we need to exercise our common sense, while understanding that Fred on the other side of the political divide may be coming from a different set of premises. Fred’s deep fake may not be our deep fake. Fighting over the evidence will not help. Evidence we don’t like becomes just another Godzilla nowadays.
We can’t keep playing a game of Pick Your Godzilla.
MY ADVICE: Get your phones out, readers. Keep your phones out. Get your footage out into cyberspace. Enough phones and we might slaughter at least a few of the latest monsters. Enough phones and people may again begin to believe what their eyes are telling them.
