It can be highly disputed that we live in a very “unreal” world. Although, we do whatever it takes to create different types of false realities, whether the topic can be expressed as global or self awareness, this collides with how we try to justify and present something with a soothing level of truthiness. This has become somewhat essential nowadays as everything has become very easily to manipulate. Guy Debord argues this and in a way he’s warning us how everything thats online and in the media can’t be trusted anymore as these topics have become extremely biased and not trustworthy. In a way this is the technologic equivalent to sugarcoating reality up to our taste.
Walter Benjamin discusses the replication of originality, how original is something if we replicate the same object over and over? does the quality of the original remain the same? is there any factor that makes the replicates any more or less original? It is in fact the same object but just represented differently, it also serves the same purpose as the original. In a way Benjamin has the opposite opinion as Debord, if we compare Debords idea of digital and media alteration to this topic, both topics serve as this argument of reality vs unreality with the exception that we know the importance of this in comparison to the public of the people who this is presented to will not. We get this idea of what happens in front AND behind the camera.