Post-truth
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| Post-truth applies to statements, situations and arguments where facts are subordinated or subjected to obfuscation in pursuit of desired intepretations/outcomes. | |
"Post-Truth" describes the modern tenuous relationship to objective reality that many feel. The term emerged around 2016. 10 Days after
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“Reality is under assault. Verbal confusion reigns. Truth and illusion have merged. Mental chaos makes it hard to fathom what is happening. We feel trapped in a hall of mirrors. Exposed lies are answered with other lies. The rational is countered with the irrational. Cognitive dissonance prevails. We endure a disquieting shame and even guilt. Tens of millions of Americans, especially women, undocumented workers, Muslims and African-Americans, suffer the acute anxiety of being pursued by a predator. All this is by design. Demagogues always infect the governed with their own psychosis.”
Chris Hedges (30 January 2017) Template:Cn
The term was added to the Oxford English dictionary in 2016. The entry is as follows:
Adjective
Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief:
- "in this era of post-truth politics, it's easy to cherry-pick data and come to whatever conclusion you desire"
- "some commentators have observed that we are living in a post-truth age" [1]
Corporate media
- Full article: Corporate media
- Full article: Corporate media
Corporate controlled media (whether social or otherwise) is often criticised for acting as a medium of propaganda. More subtly, it also acts — to the declining extent that it garners public attention — as a medium of setting the agenda.[2] Craig Murray clarified in 2016 that the "Mainstream media is not post-truth. It never had any connection to the truth."[3]
Institute for Statecraft
- Full article: Institute for Statecraft
- Full article: Institute for Statecraft
The Institute for Statecraft is a group suffering from permanent war mentality, with an extreme degree of focus on "Russian Propaganda". A Leaked document by Euan Grant documented his interest in {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Post-truth |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=|+sep=, |Has text=“making use of fictional work for reinforcing messages about Russian hybrid warfare” |Is about=Post-truth,Russian Propaganda, EXPOSE network|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate= |Sourced from=Document:Euan Grant Contributions |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=Document:Euan Grant Contributions |Has sourceURL= }}“making use of fictional work for reinforcing messages about Russian hybrid warfare” [4]. The group has also defined "disinformation" to include only what the Kremlin does.