unfinished FaD strip: embodiment becomes the body

i'm going to upload some of the folie a dupe strips i just never had time to finish. i'd like to release myself from the burden of expecting myself to still finish them.
this particular strip was a conversation between dupe and gray where dupe prods with a certain curiosity about why beliefs form -- particularly, why statements initially taken skeptically can become genuine beliefs, why social realities become just. realities. maybe an atheist believes in god. maybe a happy child becomes a miserable self-loathing adult. there's lots of little examples of this.

i think this strip never fully captured my attention because of the dry, esoteric nature of dupe's questioning, and the inconclusive ending. maybe it only felt nice at the time because of an indulgence in curiosity, as opposed to actually coming to a meaningful conclusion.
the palette is really nice in its own way, with the teals and sickly green background color. this was done in april, so i was still experimenting with what exactly i wanted to do in terms of color palettes, making some of the colors not as saturated as i might make them now. this was supposed to lean into a dupe-dominant feel by having mostly green.
the interactions themselves are okay, visually, and it's not lost on me that the framing of the conversation on dupe's end was pointed to make a belief that gray took skeptically into a genuine one through repetition and provocation to prove the point through demonstration while talking about it, which is charming to me.

about the actual subject matter, i'm not sure how much i have to say -- i think there is no easy answer. everyone is varying degrees of suggestible, and they're suggestible to things relevant to their personal experiences and preexisting beliefs. advertisements and propaganda work so thoroughly by first ensuring that the beliefs of a population are adequately controlled -- then, appealing to those beliefs is much easier... instantly, i can think of a rebuttal about the effects of interrogation on a prisoner's admission to, and sometimes subsequent belief that they committed a crime, even if they hadn't, but the majority of these cases don't end in genuine belief of the admission, so i don't think it's substantial enough to hold water.

anyway, those are all of my thoughts on this particular strip. i'm kind of glad i never finished it.