The Year Knowledge Died

[DonViejo]

Noah Rothman: “Weaponized misinformation is hardly a new phenomenon. Its effect on the 2016 presidential race has, however, been exceptionally ominous. A campaign of deliberate deceptions involving but not limited to foreign entities seeking to disrupt the American political process to their own ends should be ringing alarm bells for patriotic American voters.”

“But there’s no one left to ring them; the stewards of objective discourse have been discredited in the minds of those this campaign has targeted. The age in which there was universally understood and incontrovertible truth is over. The information age has given way to something more closely resembling its antonym.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/11/05/year-knowledge-died/

[lapfog_1]

1. Stephen Colbert recognized this years ago

we are living in the age of "truthiness"

[Foggyhill]

2. Yeah, it's what feels right... Which off course is totally dependent on past biases.

It is self reinforcing.

There is plenty of crap being bandied around on the left side echo chamber too.

We're heading for a mess of hurt if that continues because the middle were truth seekers live is getting smaller and smaller as the media is collapsing into irrelevancy

[RedCloud]

3. Shall humans flake rocks again?

Such is the life when you get no real chance to survive.

[niyad]

4. “Weaponized misinformation" a truly horrifying and accurate phrase.