The post-truth era #observation
The Oxford English dictionary has a new adjective:
post-truth
ADJECTIVE
- Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief:‘in this era of post-truth politics, it’s easy to cherry-pick data and come to whatever conclusion you desire’‘some commentators have observed that we are living in a post-truth age’
Interest rates in post-truth Britain #finance
The latest buzz word to join those most-hated headline grabbing words that editors love is post-truth. We are now in an era of appeals to our emotions as the evidence is swept away by a tide of nationalism. We have had two world wars driven by nationalism. Do we really want another?
