“G 197. We all stretch the truth and tell lies by omission. Just getting along with people involves both. Humans are hardwired to deceive. We deceive when we’re competing with other members of the same sex; we deceive when we’re trying to attract the other sex. Deception is more the state of nature than not deceiving. In the animal kingdom, virtually every species deceives all the time. Why don’t we lie even more? It helps our reputation for people to know they can believe us.” (67). Lying has become a commodity for us humans. Actually it has always been, only seen as a taboo in most societies. It’s mostly related with competition that the desire to lie is so big it’s basically inevitable to do so. When reality isn’t quite what you hope it is, why not make it the way it should be. Of course, it’s all about the prize in the long run just as Shields shows when comparing us to animals, which deceive for the perfect mate. After all, it’s all about the sex isn’t it? Improve your image and you’ll get laid easier. Therefore I strongly agree with this fragment. Everyday, people improve their image to not be swallowed whole by the truth.
“H 243. We’re overwhelmed right now by calamitous information. The real overwhelms the fictional, is incomparably more compelling than an invented drama.” (82) Most of us live in a social bubble that seems hard to get out of. Actually we are just confortable inside with our easy and seemingly fictional lifestyle. Therefore when we get a taste of the world outside our bubble, we are shocked. There are many things going on around the world that are alarming and have gotten our attention. Funnily enough, it has paused our fictional living and given us a perspective to the outside world. It overwhelms us. We know we have been living easily and getting out of that comfort zone is hard and uneasy. Therefore knowing that a world like that exists behind those walls makes everyone distracted from their easy life making them grow a conscious of the problems.
“I 252. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and they’re here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction because we live in fictitious times. (85). This fragment relates to the previous one in chapter H. It mentions a problem people with opportunities, like us, suffer: our life in the bubble. When Shields explains that he and his friends like nonfiction, we can infer that he has managed to escape from his enclosure and seen much of the real world. Life for few has become too good to be true, thus becoming fiction as they are able to make up their life with no problem. Reality, which is mostly perceived as hardship, is a stranger to those living in fiction. I agree with Shields in this one as I too live in a bubble and should learn to acknowledge the world outside: the real world.
“I 252. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and they’re here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction because we live in fictitious times. (85). This fragment relates to the previous one in chapter H. It mentions a problem people with opportunities, like us, suffer: our life in the bubble. When Shields explains that he and his friends like nonfiction, we can infer that he has managed to escape from his enclosure and seen much of the real world. Life for few has become too good to be true, thus becoming fiction as they are able to make up their life with no problem. Reality, which is mostly perceived as hardship, is a stranger to those living in fiction. I agree with Shields in this one as I too live in a bubble and should learn to acknowledge the world outside: the real world.
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