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Underdeveloped Truth and Image Based Digital Communication Is a Bad Combination: More Thoughts on “Post-Truth”

April 20, 2017 culture, Current Events, Ecology, integral theory, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Theory, Thoughts

“The idea is the same: Truth is not found, but made, and making truth means exercising power […] The reductive version is simpler and easier to abuse: Fact is fiction, and anything goes. It’s this version of critical social theory that the populist right has seized on and that Trump has made into a…

Post-Truth? More like Pre-Modern Truth.

April 17, 2017 Art, Current Events, integral theory, Philosophy, Theology, Theory, Thoughts

“Let’s take a look at this post-truth meme, this word of the year which the Oxford Dictionary defines as: ‘Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.’ Now, I would argue that the mode of communication and influence that they’re…

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