actors were seen as mountebanks...literally > >mountebank derives from the italian montimbanco, which was formed by combining the verb "montare" ("to mount"), the preposition "in" (converted to im, meaning "in" or "on"), and the noun "banco" ("bench"). the transition comes with cinema, a very powerful psychological technology that blows up actors in more than real vivid colors on a giant screen full of magical events, that elevates them to the status of gods in teh dream world that deeply penetrates the recesses of your mind. the cinema stars are literally gods to the simple minded. the exact same psychological role.
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