TV and movies warp are brains. I don't think we recognize how much it does this.
For example, the TSA actually doesn't catch most guns that go through the system. How can they possibly miss a gun???
On TV or movies, such an event would always be shown to look obvious, like this
For example, the TSA actually doesn't catch most guns that go through the system. How can they possibly miss a gun???
On TV or movies, such an event would always be shown to look obvious, like this
In reality, the gun is going to be at an angle, and mixed with other pieces of metal in a bag. As a TSA screener, after 100,000 bags go by contain various bits of metal, is this going to look obviously gun?
In the fictional world, when we are shown a gun, we are shown in such a way that we can easily recognize it. A TV or movie wouldn't deliberately try to hide from us that a gun is on screen when it's key to the plot
In the real world, things aren't so easy to recognize.
But we fail to recognize how this can be in the real world because so much of our time is spent in the fictional world, so much of our expectations shaped there.
But we fail to recognize how this can be in the real world because so much of our time is spent in the fictional world, so much of our expectations shaped there.
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