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We're in a post-truth world now. So, how can we escape the mass delusions?
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Truth isn’t the sum of many facts: It works the other way around. We erect frameworks of understanding which the facts must fit into or modify.
The 20th century’s illusion of narrative integrity is gone forever. Martin Gurri is author of "The Revolt of the Public," a former CIA analyst, and presently a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University.
Truth isn’t the sum of many facts: It works the other way around. We erect frameworks of understanding which the facts must fit into or modify. A healthy society will debate the relationship between a given fact and its role in our understanding of the world. The catastrophic failure of the mediators means that we now debate the frameworks and their meanings among ourselves. In this rolling chaos, interpretations have turned tendentious and partial. Reality has splintered into a million pieces. That’s the post-truth condition.
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