[effebrala]

Con artists and/or mental patients. Any lawyer ... should be disbarred for legal malpractice.

agreed

[deermealec]

Me? Or are you generalizing?
I don't even watch TV and crap like that. Only commercial free DVD sets, etc.

Yes, of course "you" as a generalization.
There is a rub, though.
Everyone expressing opinions on the internet today may very well be suffering a Truman Show delusion in a way, by not differentiating between themselves and their avatar online.

[effebrala]

Yes, of course "you" as a generalization.
There is a rub, though.
Everyone expressing opinions on the internet today may very well be suffering a Truman Show delusion in a way, by not differentiating between themselves and their avatar online.

Moot point.

Most people likely don't know who they really are anyway.

[Dumpishchaism]

I would say it's safe to assume that the crowd here is more "Self aware" than the average joe outside of GSus.

[deermealec]

Moot point.

Most people likely don't know who they really are anyway.

True, and there's a great deal of effort to make sure that trend continues. Both externally and internally... Lol

[griddle]

I disagree bro. Just because the khazars have mastered the art of turning anything immoral into entertainment, doesn't mean that entertainment has to be immoral.

I agree that entertainment doesn't have to be immoral. However, unscripted "entertainment" is very difficult to do cleanly. Who would give a rip about the royals if they were sleeping in their own beds every night? Do you think Survivor would have 1/10th the audience if it were a real survival show and not a soap opera in bikinis? There's a reason they are always in the tropics. "Survivor: Moosejaw" wouldn't have near the appeal.

About your first point - yes, the old shows were clean and more entertaining than modern fare. I'm sure some of it is a plan to demoralise the populace, but a large part of it is laziness. Not many people have the talent to write clean comedy. It's much easier to pull out a stock sex joke or show a half naked girl to keep people watching.

[XarokLasa]

This topic is about a delusion--something people believe that isn't real. This particular delusion is a bit bizarre I would say, but you run into people every day who have more conventional delusions. Some think the criminal justice system protects them. Others believe that al qaeda is a real organization that poses grave danger to them. Still others believe that what they see and hear on the nightly news on their television sets represents the real world. Lots of people believe that the government 'issues' money, yet they have no idea how. Everybody has some kind of delusion. Most delusions are very widespread. Multitudes have the same delusion. The Truman Show delusion is rare, so we think it's weird. However, if half the population had this delusion, and you didn't, who would be the weird one then?

Most of us here at GSUS think we are less deluded than the general population. I don't know how many people consciously ask themselves if they could believe something that someday would turn out to be a complete lie. I do. In fact, I check a lot of things I believe (meaning I take them as truth) regularly, and hold them up against evidence that they are not true regularly.

And I know all you people are being paid to support my show. Aren't you? Fess up.


Hatha

[abubycera]

This topic is about a delusion--something people believe that isn't real. This particular delusion is a bit bizarre I would say, but you run into people every day who have more conventional delusions. Some think the criminal justice system protects them. Others believe that al qaeda is a real organization that poses grave danger to them. Still others believe that what they see and hear on the nightly news on their television sets represents the real world. Lots of people believe that the government 'issues' money, yet they have no idea how. Everybody has some kind of delusion. Most delusions are very widespread. Multitudes have the same delusion. The Truman Show delusion is rare, so we think it's weird. However, if half the population had this delusion, and you didn't, who would be the weird one then?

Most of us here at GSUS think we are less deluded than the general population. I don't know how many people consciously ask themselves if they could believe something that someday would turn out to be a complete lie. I do. In fact, I check a lot of things I believe (meaning I take them as truth) regularly, and hold them up against evidence that they are not true regularly.

And I know all you people are being paid to support my show. Aren't you? Fess up.


Hatha

Hatha,
Good points all... except I think you missed one thing. The difference between most "mass delusions" (criminal justice is there to protect, etc.) and the "truman show" kind of delusions is this:

Any delusion that places the deludee in the center of things, as a "special" individual (a "Truman" character), is more likely to be a falsehood, and more likely to indicate mental illness. For example, thousands of men believing in a supernatural Jesus being is one level of delusion, but thinking YOU are Jesus is a whole new can of crazy!

[gSjQEEmq]

Any lawyer who would take these cases should be disbarred for legal malpractice.

Licenses are permission to do what would otherwise be illegal. Therefore a doctor can kill his patient (by accident of course) and a lawyer can argue. Legal bad-practice (malpractice) is punished by clients who would rather agree than fight.