This blog is written for the Sunday Reading work given by our Professor Dr. Dilip Barad. The main aim of this task is to help us connect better with literature and learn to think more clearly. We read the given texts and then write about them in our blogs. This helps us get into the habit of reading often and thinking carefully about what we read.
Post-Truth term define (according to Oxford dictionary) as,
"relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief".
In Post-Truth fact is less important but emotion and pleasure has a chief place in people. Post-truth term origin in 16th century and it's not only use for society and politics but also for literature. 2016 is known as post-truth year cause of emotion and personal beliefs in people. Many people think, I don't believe on truth cause I have 'my truth' and give misleading statements.
Many people don't have strong decision power and make some poor or foolish decision or they become confused and people like politicians mislead them and get votes they make false arguments and statements for win the election and their Post-Truth take place.
Media as medium:
Media is one of birth place for post-truth for publicity they make fack news over fact and truth and people are mislead by media. Another birth place is social media today's time for short videos in any social media and many influencers mislead followers by they statements like, 'you should use this beauty product or you should use this protin powder or this energy product. In WhatsApp we saw many fack massages and fack links people and fack skims.
In corona we saw false news about 'corona vaccine' and many of us don't take vaccine and die or positive by corona. That's false information and misleading make trouble for people letter!
Politics as medium:
Post-truth is big problem for over society but we take it very politely but it's harmful for us. Politicians are make false Statements and say 'us vs them' and misleading us by over emotions. Some time we know that that's not right but we don't get eye on it and being fool. But now, we must aware by post-truth and take a look for it or make awareness for society and our families. We teach them when any unknown number send us some links or photos then don't open it. When any politicians give any statement then we don't trust on them very easily and think about facts not think with over emotions. In digital era we must aware by social media.
Post-truth mean how ignored and manipulated truth. We trust on 'my truth' not on 'the truth'. We only satisfied by over emotions and fiction. Post-truth leads False vs true, fact vs fiction, emotions vs logic, and people only believe in their own truth not in proof. Drama lead post-truth.
French sociologist and philosopher said that, "we live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning". Some historical things misleading us like, some emotional stories (if it's false!)
In literary works we also saw examples of post-truth like :
George Orwell's "Animal Farm" in this work he discuss about government of that time and he not described any name but he used symbolism. He describes many animals and their nature and their works it's satirical work on government cause his animal characters connect with government of that time. He want public aware by government so he wrote Animal Farm but after he was became prisoner cause he was want public being aware and saw fact and truth not post-truth. Aldous Huxley's "Brave New word" is another example for post-truth.
In era of Francis Bacon term "post-truth " is not arrived but he wrote about value of truth and his one of quote from "Of truth" give us understanding of post-truth is,
" A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure."
In Post-Truth we only saw emotionally satisfying, fiction, false news, misleading over truth, fact, and proofs.
By some pictures we easily understand about post-truth:
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