“The Truth Is What People Think” . . . 0
. . . or, perhaps more precisely, what people want to think.
Badtux, who has been on quite a roll the past week or so, mediates on Americans’ susceptibility to “fake news” (AKA “lies”). Here’s a bit:
What this points out, I think, is that for a lot of Americans, truth is not something you seek out. Truth is not a hypothesis that is constantly tested against reality to validate that it’s true. Truth is an absolute, handed down by an authority figure.
Do please read the rest.
