The industry of unreality can no longer leave the social construction of reality to society, random chance or accident. Unreality is a major business and manufacturing it and spoon feeding it to the masses is easy. Most people are far too lazy to pick up a book and read because it takes critical thinking and concentration. They would rather be spoon fed sleazy gossip through the media about things that do not matter because they are easy to invoke anger and respond to. It is estimated 70 percent that what passes for news and information in our society is deliberately manufactured and distorted. The end consequence is that society is less able to face its true problems directly, honestly, and intelligently. A further consequence is that it takes crises of increasing impact, like what recently happen in Belgium and Nature Fury of wild weather events to redirect our attention back to reality, if then. However, even mega-crises seem to be no longer sufficient to capture our attention in a society that has become anesthetized to crises of all kinds. How does one separate illusion from reality in an electronic society the serves up soup kitchen visions of disaster nearly every day? It could be that American experienced 911 as yet another media event, something witnessed, but not quite real.

Individuals are getting used to the idea of sudden media temper tantrums followed by sudden recoveries that just take texting a couple of dollars to the Red Cross or the Salvation Army to face. People do not smell the stench of dead bodies that linger in the streets for months, the smell of concentrated urine and feces on adults and child(ren), that would make one throw up. They do not know that injuries are more than just cuts and bruises, but fracture bones that will hurt for life. Great public crises come and go, Aaliyah’s airplane crashes—but life goes on, even though 9 people were killed. People are accepting this weird way of life as a given. Unreality has some serious impacts on individuals, and our society as a whole. Injuries, assaults, threats, harassment and death affect more than just the immediate family. The phenomenon of unreality is so multifaceted that if defies both definition and examination through any single lens. The reason unreality is so powerful a force in our society is precisely that it is a result of a combination of mutually reinforcing influences. Social media, TV, newspapers, religion, film, and politics all illustrate and reinforce unreality. The lies and falsehoods that the media, producers, talent agents, and corporations want you to believe is not only ripping families apart, but the government also. 

Apple recently took the Federal Bureau of Investigation to court to prevent them from having a master key to Apple products, which would be used in an effort to prevent terrorist attacks. No one wants another 911 attack or Boston Bombing, and the FBI should be allowed to use whatever means necessary to stop them. Some people die in these attacks, but others survive and end up with missing feet, arms, and legs, or head injuries so bad that they become intellectually disabled. Sometimes their faces get burned off and become disfigured, and no one should have to die nor live that way when we have the technology to prevent these mega disasters from even happening. Technology should also be used to make our lives safer, not just make people look cool, allow people to get away with doing whatever they want, or destroy families. The media (social media, TV, newspapers, cell phones) plays a huge role in dissemination and fostering of unreality, but it also shows that the role of the various communication media cannot be properly understood unless we also understand how they function within the larger entertainment industry. If it is not fun, cute, dramatic, or packaged in a ten-second sound bite, then forget it. If it cannot be presented with a smiling, cheerful, sexy face, then it is not worth attending to. 

We are all spectators in a grand entertainment society looking up at the few superstars on the stage who not only perform, but stand out enough to be labeled heroes of our age. In contemporary America, one is either a celebrity or one is nobody. The cycle of sin, denial, confession, and sin again is thus another of our principal forms of entertainment. To complete the circle, entertainment itself is one of the biggest factors contributing to the denial of reality, and hence, to the continued rise of unreality. This, then, is the Age of Unreality and Disinformation. People use entertainment as a substitute for dealing directly with problems. We have become so adept at the manufacturing and consumption of fantasy that the distinction between reality and unreality is now virtually meaningless. Unreality One refers to the fact that we are imaginary person, pace, or things that an electronic image and a real person can interact at the same time on a computer screen or TV so that a viewer cannot tell whether one or both of the images are real or not. An image of Matthew Ryan Philippe and Randolph Harris shaking hands or hitting one another can be projected on a screen and most people cannot tell if it is real or doctored. 

Consider another example. We are now able to store electronically an image of, say, Reese Witherspoon in a computer, then substitute for that one of Meryl Streep in Out of Africa so that if one wanted to see Reese Witherspoon in the role, one could do it without having to reshoot the entire movie. So now celebrities can sell packages of copy-written electronic images out right, and one can spend like $5,000.00 to get a photo with Matthew Ryan Phillippe and a handwritten letter and have never met him a day in their lives. But why not, in a society where people are encouraged to sell every fragment of their being or personality for profit? This is why Paris Hilton could be in Paris, France and in Beverly Hills at the exact same time, and you thought maybe there were two of her. The entertainment industry is all about profits and controlling the images of stars. This is a deliberate denial and distortion of reality, complexity, through the massive infusion of entertainment into every aspect of society which on its surface purports to deal with reality. The problem is the stars cannot always control their image and altered photography, in some cases, is used to intentionally rip their relationships apart. Your favorite TV hunk might be being held hostage by an unknown model Pauli Pocket (prostitute).