Our post-truth world

American Thinker ^ | 31 Jul, 2024 | Robert Curry

[MtnClimber]

Did you know that the Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as the Word of the Year for 2016? Both the selection of “post-truth” and the timing of its selection are remarkable.

In 2016, Americans elected Donald Trump — and you and I are confident that Trump actually was elected in 2016. That is, we believe that the statement “Trump was elected in 2016” is both true and known to be true. But in 2020, you and I learned that we somehow no longer live in the world we have always known. Ours is now a strange new world — a post-truth world. In that world, we are told Joe Biden was elected in 2020 — but we know better. You and I are confident that the statement “Biden was elected in 2020” is not true.

What an astonishing change!

That change is not limited to the ongoing fraud that has replaced elections in America. “Post-truth” is everywhere you look.

For example, consider the economy. We know better than to believe what we are being told about it. In a brilliant and reader-friendly commentary on the economy, “Where Are the Signs of Economic Life?,” the always reliable Jeffrey Tucker discusses what he terms the “post-truth world of finance”:

[T]he data now coming out from the federal government has become highly suspect. The jobs data, the inflation data, and even the GDP data has become a tool for political propaganda. ... This is a rather new trend but it is well known.

We are constantly told that the economy is doing great — but you and I know better. As Tucker writes, the truth about the economy “is well known.”

The constant repetition of “Biden was elected in 2020” or “Bidenomics is working great” does not make either statement true.

[MtnClimber]

What will change for the 2024 elections? Cheating, but new and creative ways.

[dennisw]

ping

[equaviator]

“My truth”...It’s like “whatever”, dude! /s

[Tench_Coxe]

I doubt any in Congress would have the stones, but imagine a "Truth in Media" commission interviewing the networks and cable, chock full of examples of the mockingbirds twisting story after story, followed by the retractions, settlements, and corrections that occur much later. Follow it up with several of the composites Rush Limbaugh was famous for, where supposed independent media outlets are all repeating the same phraseology on the same topic.
Then comes the pebble in the water: "So tell us, under penalty of perjury, from where, who, and how do you get the information you are reporting?"
(I would add something about who in government or from the IC, but that would be too much of a 'heads up', unless one already had strong suspicion from who and from where beforehand--and there were already eyes keeping watch on the communication lines to catch them as they craft another narrative)

[Bob434]

They’ve run out of single words to n9 inate as “word of the year”, and have to resort to hyphenated words now?

[hal ogen]

With the quick emergence of AI who knows what is “real” or “true”...especially with all the pathetic sociopaths in “power” throughout government and business.