Lets ‘Star Talk’
This video from Star Talk that’s out just today (or rather late yesterday in terms of the UK but today in terms of the USA) is very interesting because it concerns the amount of fakery or possible untruths in society, the Internet and so on. So we can hit the road full on with the claim that time is fake, it doesn’t exist. Even in quantum physics its acknowledged time does not exist therefore to abide by it or even wear a watch amounts to subscribing to fakery. In terms of relativity space-time certainly does exist however that’s a different concept altogether – and even so it could possibly be that it exists because of our own constructs – in other words the ways in which we construct, evaluate and measure things. Even universities have also come up with what has been found to be ultimately fake stuff so there’s really no way to ensure things are 100% because everything in humanity is basically a construct. Even matters such as racism are hugely divisive and problematic because there’s pseudoscience that attempts to procure misinformation. This is something that has too be used to against the Deaf and how they are viewed in the hearing world. Its because the bad guys (including oralists) want everyone to believe their perspective – hence some sort of fakery, or construct if one prefers, must be purveyed in order to achieve such negativity. Neil de Grasse Tyson’s Star Talk is one I regularly watch and yes he is right that we should question a lot of things, not just the Internet, and what any actual intent could be, and in the past he has also explained that time is not a thing either! The video just released on what is fake and what is truth is here > Star Talk. Another talk he gave was two weeks ago about deepfakes and scams and this can be seen at > Star Talk.
Its certainly sobering stuff because, as a Deaf person I have an interest in the issue of fakery – and currently I’m witing about the issue of whether there’s any real truth in language and communication. After all, the oralists (and audists) seem to think the Deaf ought to speak, but in essence all they are doing is implying that we follow a constructed and clearly parasitic system. And there’s every indication sign language isn’t a parasitic system like speech so it must be more real. That of course depends on the parameters of what’s real and what isn’t. In 2025 there’s agreement among a number of noted academics that the very nature of language, including the spoken variation, allows a lot of problems to develop and endure like an iron grip. That’ll come in the next couple of posts on this blog. What I wish to devolve here is there is increasingly a recognition that human language is a construct – and in many ways it essentially is a life form that simply needs to replicate. The fall out is there are numerous problems that have arisen as a result of communication.
There’s no doubt the stuff purveyed in war and conflict is fake but the ‘importance’ behind it is that one side must win and the other must lose. Its why there’s insidious rhetoric and lies that are purveyed. Its a means of ensuring one side wins and the other loses. Both sides invariably up the ante with even more fakery to mislead the other. Its why we have MAD – mutually assured destruction – because some very stupid humans have devolved that nuclear weapons are a way to keep peace. Not mere sitting down, talking, discussing, coming to understandings, but rather threaten the whole world with destruction – and that ‘s a massive fakery. Its a whole construct! And massively dangerous too because nuclear annihilation is unfortunately something that is real. Not only that, the issue of defence of countries or lands is down to imaginary borders, boundaries that have no basis in reality. Unless of course one puts up a fence and says that’s my side and this is yours. Even so, that’s a construct. Some countries have indeed been created by drawing a line through the map and saying to one side, ‘that bit’s yours’ and to the others, ‘this other bit is yours.’ And then its a case of waiting merely ‘until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come!’ Delusions and fakery all around!
What about the moon landings being faked or the assertion the world is flat? Some think the moon landings were filmed in a studio – and Kubrick had a hand in this because the scenes in 2001 a Space Odyssey were so realistic people are convinced it’s possible to fully fake the moon in absentia on Planet Earth! Others think the world is flat and they use various arguments and evidence to press their viewpoint fully. Even so, one can go to the Old Bedford Level River in Cambridgeshire and with a bit of determination and proper analysis, they can deduct the Earth as being round. But hey! One doesn’t have go to all that hassle. Millions take to the skies each year by flying and there’s no doubt millions of people (including many flat-earthers) are seeing every day, and every hour and every minute of each day the fullest evidence the earth is round.
Even so, the question still is – what is truth even? Do psychologists know what is real? I beg this particular question because at university it was one that was asked regularly. There’s this thing about not bringing bias to an experiment or project but the impossibility of it is no matter what, there is invariably going to be an influence, a subjective bias and the rest of it. Even the fact language and knowledge is constructed certainly ensures these experiments are invariably 100% constructed. Besides, when even organisations desire to do research on the Deaf for some project or other, they must no doubt be bringing their own bias to the whole research too! Its evident no matter what a human does that any true objectivity almost certainly is impossible.
How about the budget announced by the UK government two days ago. Terrible isn’t it? That because it’ll be binding many to a level of unacceptable subsistence for many more years. Energy prices in this country are a fucking joke just as is food prices and rent and transport and the rest of it. Or maybe its actually fabulous and the country is going to prosper greatly and everyone is going to be richer? In fact it depends on what side one sits on. What is no doubt is ‘the truth’ is how the whole thing, this being the chancellor’s budget, worships the gods of money. Save money here, spend money there, avoid certain deficits and so on. Its a system that has been built for humans yet the ADVANTAGE of money is it serves certain humans very well – such as shareholders, money lenders, and those who want to see humans in a no-win trap where they spend their lives owing more money than they had borrowed. There’s no doubt some of those use a certain degree of language, advertising or other means to snare their victims!
If there is any concern the Internet is producing fakery, its nothing new. Humanity has employed fakery ever since time immemorial. Thousands of years ago, humans used fakery to trap animals. For example build a hole, cover it with reeds and leaves and in due course an animal falls into it, perhaps on to stakes, thus it impales itself. Or perhaps instead humans hide behind a tree, having first perhaps dirtied their faces or even their body to afford camouflage. An animal struts pass unaware there is a human present. Too late. A blow is dealt to the animal’s head and its killed. For the humans who had afforded the capture, the animal is now a mere delicacy. The day’s food intake has been sorted. There’s all sorts of other things besides these two examples that were used to trap animals. The problem is humanity got greedy so better methods were pursued. Hence weapons for a start. Even to fight other humans better and better methods of fakery and deception had to be employed. Even in war there’s no doubt fakery continues so what’s there to complain about? All of humanity is involved in some sort of fake endeavour whether intentional or not and even whether its good, bad, altruistic or malicious. Undoubtedly, humanity is very clearly a risk, not just to itself, but also to the planet, its environment, ecology and its huge variety of species.
