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The Cultural Event Horizon: The Auto-Reflexive Story of the Silver Screen

This is the first part in a series I am working on about what is happening during the current inflection. Numerous social trends and technologies have reached a point where reality as we knew it has shifted. Just as the cannon destroyed the city-state, and the rifle destroyed the medieval knight, we’re reaching a point where the assumptions of the past no longer apply. In this first article I’ll be looking at how our new forms of storytelling are altering our perception of reality. I am going to start with a premise which is so self-evident that it’s easy to...