“fact-free narratives” have “scrambled” our perceptions of reality… more dots to connect, but which dots matter?
‘…postmodernism had its strengths and weaknesses. “Its crucial insight is that power in all its dark forms is what often determines what passes for truth in our culture and ignoring that makes you vulnerable to manipulation,” Lynch says.
‘But the big error, Lynch added, “is to infer from this that truth itself was determined by those in power. That collapses what passes for truth with truth itself, which is just a mistake, both politically and logically.”’
that’s from The post-truth prophets by Sean Illing. a must read.