is there a buzzword as perfectly descriptive of clarity with deceit as "optics" ?
that gap between how something looks and the truth of it.
david foster-wallis's remarkable 2005 commencement speech tackles how optics from inside the fishbowl distorts empathy. His goldfish asks of his surroundings "is this water?".
the graduates of 2005 had no idea just how murky the water would become when our reality - the goldfish bowl we look out onto the world with - is a hand-held screen.
won't be long before graduates have never known a world without a screen.
or VR. or neuralink.
just thinkin.