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Post-truth is a new word, it has been chosen as the word of the year for 2016 by the Oxford English Dictionary. Post-truth is a compound word, which is a word comprised of two words joined together to create a new word with a new meaning.
Post-truth describes a situation in which the important of actual facts is supplanted by appeals to emotion and personal prejudices in influencing public opinion. The prefix post means after, though beginning in the 1970s it began to be used to designate a time when something becomes irrelevant. An example of this use is the word post-racial. First used in the 1990s, the term post-truth was popularized with publication of the book The Post-truth Era (2004), written by Ralph Keyes. The term post truth is mostly used in the sense of politics, a political philosophy which stresses emotion and personal prejudices over objective fact or specific policy. A related term is post-truthers.
In theoretical definition, post-truth means objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.
In academic definition, post-truth means, "Systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations maybe drawn in an illogical fashion. Individuals create their own 'subjective social reality' from their perception of the input."
In real world sense, we the common people always have been manipulated by the powerful, the aristocratic, the dictator, the historians, the liberal and the influential. The people who had power always used his/her position to make us believe, this is the correct 'truth'. However its always been subjective and debatable. I mean, read about Sir Winston Churchill, he was the mass murderer of millions of people, but he always been regarded as a War Hero which is fare from the fact.
In real world sense, we the common people always have been manipulated by the powerful, the aristocratic, the dictator, the historians, the liberal and the influential. The people who had power always used his/her position to make us believe, this is the correct 'truth'. However its always been subjective and debatable. I mean, read about Sir Winston Churchill, he was the mass murderer of millions of people, but he always been regarded as a War Hero which is fare from the fact.
In the post-truth era, borders blur between truth and lies, honesty and dishonesty, fiction and nonfiction. Deceiving others becomes a challenge, a game and ultimately a habit. As the volume of strangers and acquaintances in our lives rises, so do opportunities to improve on the truth. The result is a widespread sense that much of what told can't be trusted.
