Comments | iceowl: sideways deja vu

iceowl

sideways deja vu

Nov 18, 2006 13:16

Do you ever get the feeling that some events are replayed so often that you're not sure they ever really happened?

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mydwit November 19 2006, 20:35:23 UTC

How weird is it that you know Nick? (nick_jazz) Ottawa really is a small world... even for people who don't live here anymore.

iceowl November 19 2006, 21:10:20 UTC

Nick and I both went to Merivale HS, I've known him for a while :)

mydwit November 19 2006, 22:17:24 UTC

Crazy. I've only known him online, but he went to college with Scott... who's LJ I can't remember at the moment, and I know Scott from work. But I met Nick randomly online.

what a cute little world.

dave173 November 20 2006, 12:02:49 UTC

Usually when events get replayed, it actually makes me more sure that they actually happened. But that's just me.

Then again, if you play a movie over enough times it might seem more real, when really it never actually happened.

iceowl November 20 2006, 15:32:10 UTC

The last bit is kind of what I mean.

I was reading something about a monument being of Martin Luther King Jr. being erected near the Washington Monument, where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.. I'm pretty sure a lot of people have seen that bit of film repeated on TV at some point in their life. The thought occured to me that I've seen it so many times, but it's repeated so often it feels like fiction. The same thing happens with old war footage: I can't be certain that any of those events ever happened, nevermind that there's an overwhelming document to prove it.

dave173 November 20 2006, 17:54:28 UTC

You're reminding me of the recorded toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad. The footage was of a big crowd of people as if they were all randomly coming to cheer and help destroy this statue, but the camera angles were used well to avoid showing that the people only numbered about 30 to 40 and that the rest of the large square was blocked off by tanks and soldiers making sure that it all went smoothly. I read an article back then that had links to both the footage and a few pictures of the scene taken from a higher angle nearby and the difference was stunning. What people saw was technically what happened, but the overplayed video clip of the "celebratory event" gives a completely skewed idea of the true setting of the scene.