Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Fiction, when repeated enough, becomes fact in the minds of many. So why aren’t we trying to stomp out fiction that is far from reality?

I have seen many movies on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. 99% of murders in real life are not like that, nothing like that. 99% of murders in fiction are like that meaning they are far from reality. Repeat enough and SOME people begin to believe fiction.

We aren’t stupid, but we are human. We eventually believe some of what is repeated to us.

The murders are clean. A team of nice people dig for motives and threaten people enough so that they “want to have a lawyer.” And then, when the real murder is revealed, the nice people don’t go back and apologize for threatening innocent people? And the real murder gives up with, “Golly gee, you got me.”

So why aren’t we as a society trying to stomp out Hallmark and Agatha Christie and all those folks? Why do we allow these well-meaning folks to give us a false impression of life so much so that we believe life is that clean and nice?

Perhaps Hallmark and Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes are so far fetched that we just don’t fall into the trap of believing life is that clean. We aren’t so gullible. Let’s hope so.