Originally Posted by bhkad

May I assume you are saying that fantasy can not and does not influence people's thought processes, affect their reality?

All of the things you've done in your life began with a thought. Something that was not real. Until you acted upon those thoughts and made them real.

It's nothing new or remarkable. It happens every day, to every living human.

Always has, since the beginning.

We all, always, and all the time get an idea of the way the world works by how things are depicted by others through words and sounds and pictures.

In the films coming out of Hollywood America is the ******* of the world. And if that corresponds to your view of America you will not notice this perspective because it just seems natural to you.

But if your view is that America is great then what you see in the films coming out of Hollywood dealing with America amounts to slander. They are lies being told in subtle ways which depict America to be something it really isn't. And people who know and love America sense these lies and stay away from most all of the anti-US war films since 2003. We know these films are telling a version of the truth as seen by the filmmaker but it isn't the same truths that most Americans see.