Post-Truth Audiobook (Free)

What, exactly, can be post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, politics spin, mass delusion, bold-faced laying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples-claims about inauguration masses size, crime statistics, and the favorite vote-and discovers that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy where its practitioners try to compel you to definitely believe something whatever the evidence. However post-truth didn’t begin with the 2016 election; the denial of medical facts about smoking, development, vaccines, about Post-Truth and weather change provides a road map for more popular fact denial. Increase this the wired-in cognitive biases which make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional press and the rise of social networking, and the emergence of fake information as a political tool, and we’ve 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 matter as goal truth-in its attacks on science and facts.

McIntyre argues that we can battle post-truth, which the first rung on the ladder in fighting with each other post-truth is to comprehend it.