Life in a Make-Believe World

I have noticed a lack of interest by most people many things.

Now that I have written that sentence, I realize how lame it is. I need to define who most people are, and what many things are.

But I have had considerable help here, by the people who developed Mass Production (a core concept of Industrialization) and writers who developed the concept of the Masses, to go along with this. Prominent among these was the Industrialist Henry Ford (who is well-known) and Ortega y Gasset (who is not so well-known).

I could also include many people who are usually lumped together as Communists or Fascists (or more recently, Terrorists).

Industrialization created an intolerable work environment, that workers relieved with a variety of interests, religions, and entertainments. Including the Movies, that had a big effect on its viewers.

The main effect was an interest in artificial realities that were more interesting than the ordinary realities that preceded them.

This process was greatly accelerated by Television in the Fifties. That had a huge effect on its viewers, who was anyone who had access to Electricity.

This was followed by the Computer, that created another reality, called Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The impact of this is not fully known, because it is still going on.