Saving Truth: Finding Clarity in a Post-Truth Culture – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-09-13 19:00:00 in United States Abdu Murray Esq. – North American Director, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Sept. 13-14th, 2019 at Faith E Church. (Details and ticket info. below) Meet the Post-Truth Worldview: Where Postmodernism failed because it was incoherent, Post-Truth …
The Last Jedi: latest Star Wars is a fable for our post-truth times: When Rey met Luke. Disney Warning: Spoiler alert The Star Wars universe is no stranger to political allegories. Many viewers have pointed out the parallels between the original Empire and the Nazis, to give the most famous example, with the plucky Rebel …
It was Big Tobacco, not Trump, that wrote the post-truth rule book: Smoking … and mirrors. Shutterstock After two chaotic months as president, Donald Trump is widely credited with rewriting the political rule book. We are witnessing Trump’s new era of post-fact politics, where distraction and obfuscation are central, and critical stories are dismissed as …
What is fiction good for in a post-truth world?: Johanna Altmann / Shutterstock.com Ever since Plato equated poetry with falsehood in the fourth century BC, the value of fiction has been in doubt. No convincing case for its value has since been made, beyond the obvious pleasures experienced by readers and audiences. Today, fiction in …
The violent, post-truth 2017 predicted in The Running Man? We’re living in it: 'It's showtime!' Movies in LA, CC BY-SA Welcome to a world where fake news stories are used to manipulate public opinion. Dissent is no longer tolerated and all your communications are monitored; the economy is not functioning and reality TV is used …
The post-truth era of Trump is just what Nietzsche predicted: Waiting for superman: Friedrich Nietzsche. Flickr The morning of the US presidential election, I was leading a graduate seminar on Friedrich Nietzsche’s critique of truth. It turned out to be all too apt. Nietzsche, German counter-Enlightenment thinker of the late 19th century, seemed to suggest …