I’m not much of a consumer of popular culture these days, but I think it’s worth pointing out that, aside from some news items, you almost never see anyone wearing masks in visual media — in movies, TV shows, etc. — despite the ubiquity of masks in this new era of the actually existing world.
Why is that? It’s obvious, I think: putting masks on the faces of actors would ruin everything. Their craft is to convey human experience on screen, and more than anything else they rely on their voices and facial expressions. But masks conceal faces, and muffle voices — so how could actors possibly work effectively under such a handicap? It would be a crazy thing to do, and so nobody producing content for the screen is doing it.
But: if masking the faces of actors would be so crippling to the presentation of human life on screen, doesn’t that mean that it has exactly the same stunting, crippling, pathological effect in real life? Ought we really be doing this to our children as they learn — they only get one chance, after all — how to be human?
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