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I suppose that if there is anything particularly new about what I'm suggesting, apart from just pulling various threads together that taken individually are already well known to specialists, it's something like this : we live in a hallucinated psuedo-reality, determined to a great extent by Steven Spielberg movies. Talking of which, I think that spoof "Night at the Holocaust Museum" trailer was really making fun of Spielberg, not of the Holocaust itself, but it's interesting that despite the extremely clear cineaste references, William's mind, and doubtless the minds of many other people, jumped from the image to the imputed reality, and that is how induced hallucination actually works : film supplants reality in forming moral reactions.
