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Truman Show Parable

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The parable that Wallace shared conveyed a hard message to swallow— the toughest realizations that we as humans must face in life are the ones that seem the most painfully obvious. In the parable, an older, perhaps wiser fish introduces the aspect of ‘water’ to the younger, naive fish. While it is obvious to humans that fish flourish in water, it is impossible to claim that fish are aware of the reality of their environment. Therefore, it is reasonable to see how the proposed situation of the fish coming across an insightful perspective would seem inconceivable to the fish, to the point that they might not understand or have the capacity to believe it. A situation analogous to the fishes’ would be the movie, The Truman Show. In the movie,

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