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The Treachery of Images

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The Treachery of Images	comment	When someone wants to really blow your mind, they will show you something. It can be an ordinary object or a piece of music or anything really, as long as they can see or hear it. And then they say, "This does not exist." With this mantra, the falsity of the world is stripped away and perhaps the hidden mask of reality is revealed. This is often an indicator of a Mind Screw. What you are reading is not a "page". It is merely a series of 0s and 1s grouped into TCP segments, interpreted as HTML markup, and displayed via a matrix of glowing dots; just part of a large and complex abstraction which people call a "page" by means of convention, even though it only superficially resembles a thin rectangle of plant-fiber covered in ink shapes. Believe nothing. Beware of who this is used on. Depending on the person, they may just bluntly disagree, causing the entire premise to fall apart. A common retort might be "This fist is not real." followed by Pow! This trope can be dreadfully annoying and dull if it takes itself too seriously or delightful and intellectually stimulating if it doesn't. Needless to say, it's very easy to parody. Compare 2 + Torture = 5, a darker version when someone forces you to see and believe things like these. Compare and contrast Clap Your Hands If You Believe and Willing Suspension of Disbelief. Contrast Perspective Magic, in which reality conforms to even the unrealistic aspects of an image. Falls on the cynical side of the Power of Language scale. See also Expospeak and True Art Is Incomprehensible. Taking this to the extreme as a serious philosophical concept is Solipsism, the belief that the only thing you can prove to exist is your own mind. On the other hand, it could just be a plea for more precise terminology. Not related to Your Mind Makes It Real.
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