The Art of Obfuscation
The best way to make people blind to their current reality is by selling them the idea that a 'greater' reality will come - or that the most significant things happened ages ago.
Examples
The holocaust already happened. Nothing like it is happening now.
World war II was so tragic. Nothing like it is happening now.
The metaverse is coming in the future. Nothing like it is happening now.
By focusing on one-time events/time intervals that happened in the past or will come in the future we ignore the possibility that the undercurrents responsible for those events are currently taking place.
By giving a disproportionate amount of attention to these historical/future periods we obfuscate the current reality. For example, concentration camps still exist today in different countries. Wars are ongoing.
But by narrowing a populace's attention to a past atrocity using the mere-exposure effect (repetition) we pay less attention to the current concentration camps and wars.
On the other side, pushing the idea that there will be a metaverse in the future, we obfuscate that we already live in one to a significant degree.
It seems that many narratives either push up to focus on the future or past - when the very biggest things are happening right now.
YES YES and YES dear Felice.
I could add many other ways, like using SIMILAR words having a different meaning and thus perverting or at least manipulating people. Publicists and politicians used it a lot.