POST-TRUTH
Sunday Reading Activity
Hello friends,
While speaking, writing, working, we think of ourselves and act as if we are right, instead of this we need to see the things in a different way or from a different perspective. Somehow this is questions to truth. According to Oxford Dictionaries, the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich first used the term post-truth in a 1992 essay in The Nation. Oxford Dictionaries has declared "post-truth" as its 2016 international word of the year, reflecting what it called a "highly-charged" political 12 months. Click here to know more news about post-truth through BBC news.
Beyond word of the year 2016
The Oxford English Dictionaries named “post-truth” its word of the year in November 2016, right before the U.S. election.
Citing a 2,000 percent spike in usage – due to Brexit and the American presidential campaign – they defined post-truth as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”
Ideology, in other words, takes precedence over reality. When an individual believes their thoughts can influence reality, we call it “magical thinking” and might worry about their mental health. When a government official uses ideology to trump reality, it’s more like propaganda, and it puts us on the road to fascism.
As Yale philosopher Jason Stanley argues, “The key thing is that fascist politics is about identifying enemies, appealing to the in-group (usually the majority group), and smashing truth and replacing it with power.”
Ideology, post-truth and power
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The point of a lie is to convince someone that a falsehood is true. But the point of post-truth is domination. In my analysis, post-truth is an assertion of power.
As journalist Masha Gessen and others have argued, when Trump lies he does so not to get someone to accept what he’s saying as true, but to show that he is powerful enough to say it.
He has asserted, “I’m the President and you’re not,” as if such high political office comes with
the prerogative of creating his own reality.
This would explain why Trump doesn’t seem to care much if there is videotape or other evidence that contradicts him. When you’re the boss, what does that matter?
Same way, we can also take examples of other politicians like Prime Minister of India – Narendra Modi's views about GST & his own views about GST when he was CM of India. This is how politicians use simple ways to deceive and seduce people. Demonetization and Cashless India have done the same thing in directly or more indirectly but politics played such that a Mango man could not raise even his voice. Such examples help us to understand this term.
(1)Freedom of Expression
According to our constitution, we have
freedom of expression but we need to think that really are we free? And if we are free then in which....
sense we are really free! Just look a while whethere we are free in this way or not!
(2) Satire on our education system
It may touch our heart at first sight, because we have been used to it since childhood as a way of putting guilt on our weaknesses. But
once we think whether we are a fish? Or
elephant or lion or any other animal?
No, we are humans and therefore this picture may not be right for us.
After deep study it can be said that in this picture the painter has worked to deceive the people by his skill and to put the blame on the system instead of paying attention to his own. Actually, This picture is satire upon human capacities not upon education system. We are human beings and man is man if he is multitasker otherwise what is the difference between man and beast!
(3)Journalism v/s truth v/s post-truth
In modern times social media and media do a unique job of spreading the word to the people. But the fact that the media is truly delivering the message to the masses, or whether it is overtaxing or spreading information in favour of a political party, has become the most burning question of today.
For example,
Portraying everything differently has become one of the biggest work of the media.
At the present time, there are very few
journalists who are delivering genuine journalism like Ravish Kumar with neutrality against some kind of political party, and they are also being veiled by political parties.
Some other cartoons may help us to be very clear about this term Post-Truth. The best nation can never be formed by joining religion and monarchy. At present, the monarchy uses religion as an object and now it is time to think about whose foolishness it is politicians are taking advantage of this! Right now, the way is being taken that the opposing party will automatically feel suborfinate.
During last several years ! Indirect way of taking more tax rather we can say on the name of black money.
Democracy means by the people, for the people, of the people but now-a-days it is become BUY THE PEOPLE, FOUR THE PEOPLE & OFF THE PEOPLE
As post truth questions to truth rather discovers the truth. In our day-to-day life also we can find it. So let's be aware & try to indentify the truth and do not become victim of fake truth.
Thank you.
Ideology, post-truth and power
(Click here to go to source)
The point of a lie is to convince someone that a falsehood is true. But the point of post-truth is domination. In my analysis, post-truth is an assertion of power.
As journalist Masha Gessen and others have argued, when Trump lies he does so not to get someone to accept what he’s saying as true, but to show that he is powerful enough to say it.
He has asserted, “I’m the President and you’re not,” as if such high political office comes with
the prerogative of creating his own reality.
Same way, we can also take examples of other politicians like Prime Minister of India – Narendra Modi's views about GST & his own views about GST when he was CM of India. This is how politicians use simple ways to deceive and seduce people. Demonetization and Cashless India have done the same thing in directly or more indirectly but politics played such that a Mango man could not raise even his voice. Such examples help us to understand this term.
According to our constitution, we have
(2) Satire on our education system
once we think whether we are a fish? Or
No, we are humans and therefore this picture may not be right for us.
After deep study it can be said that in this picture the painter has worked to deceive the people by his skill and to put the blame on the system instead of paying attention to his own. Actually, This picture is satire upon human capacities not upon education system. We are human beings and man is man if he is multitasker otherwise what is the difference between man and beast!
(3)Journalism v/s truth v/s post-truth
In modern times social media and media do a unique job of spreading the word to the people. But the fact that the media is truly delivering the message to the masses, or whether it is overtaxing or spreading information in favour of a political party, has become the most burning question of today.
For example,
At the present time, there are very few
Some other cartoons may help us to be very clear about this term Post-Truth. The best nation can never be formed by joining religion and monarchy. At present, the monarchy uses religion as an object and now it is time to think about whose foolishness it is politicians are taking advantage of this! Right now, the way is being taken that the opposing party will automatically feel suborfinate.
During last several years ! Indirect way of taking more tax rather we can say on the name of black money.
Thank you.
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