Meanwhile Rasa is assembling a whole new collection of smoking guns. Ooh goody!
He has declared that shadows are under studio lights (with converging light beams no less) because the shadows are blurry at the edges.
...
This
has to be performative; he has to be pretending to be that ignorant for his audience (who also have to be pretending to be part of the tribe). I noticed this effect when I was a small child walking to elementary school early in the morning; I noticed it when playing with a flashlight. I happened to look at an entry for solar eclipses in an encyclopedia one day and figured out what was happening.
I was literally
eight years old when I understood what was going on; I refuse to believe that people who graduated high school and have jobs and are allowed to drive on public roads have trouble with it.