Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

One again, our world plunges into debate about … bunny rabbits on trampolines.

Are those bunny rabbits bouncing on a trampoline real? Oh no, they aren’t. AI generated that video. Who is the dastardly person who perpetrated that hoax on us all? We need to find a villain and do what it is we do to villains these days.

It wasn’t real. It was funny and entertainment. That’s entertainment folks. Stuff that isn’t real, but makes us watch a little longer than we should because we laugh when we look at it. Bugs Bunny wasn’t real, but we watched and laughed. Same with the Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote and the list goes on and on.

Yeah, but… Of course there is a “but” this time. The computer created something so real we thought it was real. We could tell Bugs Bunny wasn’t real. We couldn’t tell the bunnies on the trampoline wasn’t real. Well, some of us could tell it wasn’t real when we looked close enough, but that’s not fair.

Milli Vanilli won a Grammy Award in 1990. Then we learned it wasn’t real. We were mad because someone entertained us with something that wasn’t real. We were fooled. We felt foolish. We were mad.

Entertainment is mostly stuff that isn’t real. We suspend belief for a moment or two. We are entertained. Come on folks, it’s just bunny rabbits on a trampoline. Surely there are issues more important to discuss.