• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Since it’s inconceivable that everything on TV is true, then everything on TV must be false!

    Seriously what terrible quote from a terrible chud.

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      2 months ago

      Without trying to defend him here ( not my goal ), that is a pretty weak analogy.

      “Everything on TV” is not a zero sum game. For one thing to be true, it is not necessary for everything else to be false. There is little dependency between the content on one channel and another.

      Looking at his own cultural religious tradition, the major religions say contradictory things and say that they are the truth. Islam and Judaism both reject that Christ is a God whereas it is pretty important to the Christians that he is. They cannot all be right. That is clearly what he is saying.

      Although, taking a step back, many religions throughout history require faith in the Gods they profess but not necessarily a rejection of other Gods. That seems to be a more recent thing.

      If it was not required to reject the Egyptian Gods to accept the Norse ones, then his reasoning falls apart and your analogy becomes valid.

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      2 months ago

      Terrible comparison. Other than propaganda like right-wing “news,” TV clearly delineates what is fiction and non-fiction. Religions all claim to be true and contradict one another.

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      2 months ago

      Everything on TV is false. It’s curated. It’s edited. It’s commercialized. There is not a single thing on TV that fully represents an experience as if it were not on TV.