Trump Is The Most Creative Producer In The World by Dr. Ken Atchity
Film Courage: I was reading that a high school journalism teacher was trying to instruct her students to decipher Tweets and fake news and that’s something that five years ago, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
Dr. Ken Atchity, Producer: I have a really strange theory about this whole thing about fake news is that…I don’t even know how to say this because…I think Trump is kind of a breakthrough cultural character. I don’t have any fond feelings for him and I could go on and on about that. But he is an eccentric, creative person. He is the most amazing producer I’ve ever seen in my life and I can’t even imagine one more powerful than he is.
A few years ago people around the world didn’t even know who he was. People in New York knew who he was but mostly in a negative way. But in today’s world whether you are in Thailand like I was a few weeks ago or whether you were in an island off the coast of Samoa or in Latvia or Estonia or Albania, you can’t pick up a paper that doesn’t have the word “Trump” in it.
And his ability to get the media to do what he wants them to do is almost infinite, it’s astonishing. People say “Well he is a liar.” But the more I hear that over the last few years the more I start thinking what is really going on (my wife would hurt me for saying this) is that he is changing or awakening us to our strange views of truth. Because I don’t think he knows this (I don’t think it’s conscious on his part) but he instinctively knows that truth is completely relative.
And if a society decides that it’s not relative then that is a social decision. Just like the continent of reasoning saying “We are going to agree that this is true.” But he’s saying whatever is true…the only thing that is true is whatever I am saying at the moment and that’s the way I look at it (it’s true) and he’s got a lot of people that even though some of it sounds just plain crazy. But isn’t that the way creative people always sound at the beginning?
So I’m afraid and kind of excited that we may be going into a whole new era of post-truth era…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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