Don’t you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone! – Saito in Inception
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PAG e-NEWS: 4 August 2010
— questioning dogma, ideology, authority, reality, and whatever is left
— peeking behind the curtain
— thinking outside the program
— looking below the surface
— lifting the veil
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Published by Peter A. Gersten, Esq. (ufolawyer@msn.com)
Website: http://www.pagenews.info
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INCEPTION DECEPTIONs
I can’t remember another movie generating as much discussion as Christopher Nolan’s Inception. When it comes to influencing people’s thoughts, beliefs, ideas, and dreams, even when portrayed as fiction, people tend to analyze the various movie messages in terms of real world events. Interestingly, according to the first commentary, when misinformed people … were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. For just this reason I’ve maintained for quite a while now that with the UFO Phenomenon there is no significant difference between hoaxes and real events. When it comes to people’s beliefs – disinformation that is consistent with that belief is just as convincing as a real event – even after the hoax is exposed.
Real life ‘Inception’ deceptions
For all of its “Matrix”-like convolutions and “Alice in Wonderland” allusions, the new film “Inception” adds something significant to the ancient ruminations about reality’s authenticity — something profoundly relevant to this epoch of confusion. In the movie’s tale of corporate espionage, we are asked to ponder this moment’s most disturbing epistemological questions: Namely, how are ideas deposited in people’s minds, and how incurable are those ideas when they are wrong?
The deception of real-world “Inception”
What the new science-fiction movie tells us about the willful ignorance that dominates America’s political culture
Inception Deception
I was initially intrigued that Nolan makes use of Richard Dawkins’ idea of comparing ideas with viruses. The idea first appeared in The Selfish Gene (1976) when Dawkins coined the term “meme” to argue that ideas might be able to replicate and become dominant in a population much the way genes do.