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It's not just mythology - sometimes it is used to defame and erase people.

Recently I watched the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line (2005). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358273

It was entirely by chance that almost immediately after that I saw the story of his first wife, Vivian Dorraine Liberto, in My Darling Vivian (2020), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7432980

Watching these two films back to back is informative. The end bits of the last film featuring the celebratory gathering of Hollywood personas was specially galling, in context of the counter-narrative.

There is this 'machine' that has perfected the art of deception and perception management and preys upon our inherent human psychological susceptibilities. Even cynics like me are susceptible. The only effective antidote seems to be to turn the tools and means of the machine against its products, or to avoid its products entirely.



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