Post-Truth - Lee McIntyre
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How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.
Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public’s retreat into “information silos.”
What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples―claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote―and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn’t begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism―specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth―in its attacks on science and facts.
McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 4/5
July 15th, 2019
…and to understand that you’re capable of it. Objective truth is a much beleaguered metaphysical abstract - from all points on the political spectrum. No heroes in this postmodern narrative, I fear. It’s “problematised” as the PMs would observe. To imagine that your “gang” is impeccable is post-logic, also.
Thanks, Jean-Paul!
July 15th, 2019
Thanks for the upload sartre100: I was very impressed by McIntyre’s history of the scientific method. I suspect this tome will be just as stimulating.
I tend to agree, though, that there is nothing especially contemporary ‘Post Truth’.
It’s just a new name for what we used to call Faith.
July 15th, 2019
Faith in fascism/Marxism, utopian thinking and human perfectibilty? Quite so, quite so. All of that post-truth, ante-thought, inverted-reality dross.
July 15th, 2019
“MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series” …. the postmodernist concubinage.
July 15th, 2019
Post-Truth = Pre-Fascism.
Thanks for the upload!
July 15th, 2019
Jamesinco, you are right on target, but perhaps not in the way that you think. Both Fascism and Communism are post-truth, and both socialism. McIntyre seems to have been blind-sided by his own philosophy and political ideology, as the left represents epitome of the ultimate post-truth, post-modern ideal, politically, morally, and philosophically speaking.
July 16th, 2019
Thanks a lot, sartre100.
July 17th, 2019
if your Truth includes 72 genders … :-D
September 16th, 2019
Science? CO2=Y2K
Is “climate” science also only 99% sure the planet isn’t flat?
March 16th, 2025
@Jiminy Cricket, what you say is only partially correct.
Fascism often relies on propaganda, myth-making, and emotional appeals rather than objective reality, making it “post-truth” in practice.
Similarly, some forms of Communism (especially in authoritarian regimes like the USSR under Stalin or China under Mao) also engaged in heavy propaganda, rewriting history, and suppressing inconvenient truths.
However, Fascism and Communism have opposing views on socialism.
Communism is explicitly socialist, advocating for collective ownership of the means of production and a classless society.
Fascism, despite sometimes using socialist rhetoric (e.g., “National Socialism” in Nazi Germany), generally preserves private property and corporate power as long as it serves the state. It is better described as ultranationalist and corporatist rather than socialist.
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