Simplest form 'post -truth is where logical facts become less important than Emotional feelings. Truth is a function of trust and pertains to the authority of the source.
The collapse of trust in our leading institutions has exiled the 21st century to the Siberia of post - truth. I want to be clear about what this means. Reality has not changed. It's still unyielding. Facts today are partial and contradictory - but that's always been the case. Post -truth, as I define it, signifies a moment of sharply divergent perspective on every subject or event, without a trusted authority in the room to settle the matter.
Emotional truth and actual actual truth.
Today we have got a cultural trend to place Emotional truth over logical truth. Post truth is where logical facts become less important than Emotional feelings. Post - truth is not a lie, it's a public relation with false or things which are not true also we can say it is about people not true also we can say it is about people not valuing the truth. Post truth is not news/views, it is a contradiction between what you want to hear, knowing it's false and then deciding 'This is true.'
Post - truth and politics
Post truth politics also called Post- factual politics and Post reality politics. Post truth politics is a subset of the broader term Post- truth, which has historical roots
As of 2018, political commentators have identified Post-truth politics as ascendant in many nations, notably Australia, Brazil, China, India, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among other. As with other areas of debate, this is being driven by a combination of the 24 hour news cycle, false balance in news reporting, and the increasing ubiquity of social media and fake news website. In 2016, post -truth was chosen as the Oxford dictionaries' word of the year due to its prevalence in the context of that year's Brexit referendum and media coverage of the US presidential election.
Social media and truth
Post truth is a new concept for the people of 21st century. It is a philosophical and political ideology for " the disappearance of shared objectives standards for truth" truth is an essential part of the information to make positive impact for making responsible society. It believes on emotion, false perceptions and personal belief rather than facts, truth and social reality. Every person in society has been misusing all forms of media including social media. Out of them Facebook, Twitter/ Instagram/ YouTube/ WhatsApp etc are especially misused to extend the power of regime.
The academic discussion initiated in 1990s was a broader vision with historical transformation of media systems and journalism among the world societies has been a hot burning issues amplified in the American presidential election in 2016. Because of the huge popularity of the term "post-truth", It was recommended as a word of the year in Oxford dictionary for 2016 which was deeply misused in the American media.
"I think of post - truth as a tactic that's used by authoritarian and their wannabes to control the flow of information so that they can them control the populace."
-Lee McIntyre
The truth is truth has never been high on the agenda of homo sapient. If you stick to unalloyed reality, few people will follow you. False stories have an intrinsic advantage over the truth when it comes to uniting people. If you want to gauge group loyalty, requiring people to believe an absurdity is a far better test than asking them to believe the truth. If the chief says the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, only true loyalists will clap their hands. Similarly, if all your neighbors believe the same outrageous tale, you can count on them to stand together in times of crisis. If they are willing to believe only accredited facts, what does that prove?
Resources:
Wikipedia
https://youtu.be/jx64VvcaflA
Other sources
I have presented my thoughts and understanding of post -truth. I hope this blog might have given you an easy understanding. Thank you for visiting.
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