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Drawing on the film Blow Up, the transcript illustrates how lies and confusion can become indistinguishable from truth. In the movie, a photographer becomes trapped in a world of illusions, unable to discern reality from fiction. The scenario culminates in the metaphor of an invisible tennis ball, where the audience is manipulated into hearing and seeing things that are not there, losing touch with reality.
This allegory warns that when people accept and internalize the culture of lies—when they stop questioning—those in power can make us vanish into their illusions, erasing genuine truth and rendering the populace passive, confused, and compliant.