I simplify this issue by just accepting that absolutely everything is fiction. Everything. Even unedited photos and my own testimony about something I witnessed. There's nothing than can match 'reality' or 'truth', those are just impossible concepts.
So yeah, nothing is real, everything is fiction ☺️
It is very amusing when you go to the library and look for books in the philopshy section on truth. Just looking at the spines of the books, the common thread is that "truth = beauty", therefore; the unaltered world, should you look deep enough is true, and therefore beautiful.
It's a bit too optimistic for me.
We can see how easily the world around us is manufactured visually, too. The first image I was shown in art school was that of a pipe. Below, in french, was the text "this is not a pipe" - the point being it is a representation of a pipe.
Not a true, beautiful "pipe".
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Excellent article! 😉