Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

We seem to have confused ourselves once again. Perhaps simply asking a few questions would quell all the hyperventilating.

Is it misinformation or disinformation?

I confuse the two. Is either a real word or something a word inventor invented last week because he couldn’t find his dictionary and an appropriate word among the tens of thousands available?

Consider (if you can remember) Orson Welles’ radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds.” I guess that would be banned by one of those not-real-information censors.

Entertainers want fiction to be taken as non-fiction. That was the genius of Hitchcock—that the horror could happen to just about anyone on just about any day.

Whatever happened to, “Is this real? It couldn’t be, could it?”

I suppose we ran out of question askers in today’s post-post-modern world Oh wait, did I put enough “posts“ in that?