You can’t really blame people that are sensitive for getting suckered by television, but they need media literacy.

They need to understand the business models and the incentives behind the companies that make the things that they watch on their screens, how the subconscious mind works, how subliminal messaging works. These screens are filters to experiences that are illusory. It’s what that New York Times op-ed video talks about: don’t believe everything you see, on a screen. It’s hard enough to convince ourselves to not believe everything we think (as it’s a subjective interpretation of “reality”).

And with generative AI getting all the more convincing, it’s extremely important that people have media literacy. It also speaks to how there will become this meatspace premium and this gravitation towards the real and the tangible. And inversely, there’s going to be people that distrust everything more.