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As someone from Gen Z, yeah it does feel like people live different realities (can be just true in some cases lol)
but also remember, everyone is the main character of their own life. we can only see life through our eyes, nobody elses. we can imagine what it is like for others, but only be experiencing it through our own.
so, we do all have different "realities", but most of the time i do not think this is being such a bad thing. i do think there should be some commonly agreed upon things, like understandings of science. but eh.
you cannot control nobody but yourself. if somebody is speaking of realities that do not "mesh" with your own, and you cannot move past these differences, cut them off. cease speaking to them. sometimes people are just incompatible. that is fine, there is 8 billion peoples on this planet, we do not have to get along with everybody.
You sound reminiscent of the old days, but nothing has changed
My Dad was big into AmWay. I saw it as a precursor to the modern "post-truth" stuff. Somehow I wound up in a Christian Home School, not surprised by what is happening now.
I enjoyed Star Trek and the DC Animated Universe.
I valued online debate, on forums very similar to the Steam forums. Debate seems to be lacking on social media.
Facebook in particular seems to be very toxic with throwing everything into everybody else's faces all the time.
Other social media has limited participation ("replies") and a lot of duplicate threads ("comment threads").
My upbringing was the Bible, school books, Star Trek, DC, and then self-directed research and study often propelled by online debate.
I was reading a news article earlier today. It featured Trump/Musk/etc saying, "I can't say that Fort Knox has any/all the gold." It's kind of amazing how merely saying that is enough to make that reality "true." It's like the worst aspect of all these stoopid "multi-verse" movies condensed into reality.... *sigh* And it didn't take a massive "magic" machine from a sci-fi movie, it's just a sound-byte.
Beyond that, anything else is absurdism to the point of trolling. What does it matter if Fort Knox has any gold at all, much less "all of it"???
i have mostly just given up on peoples who deny concrete facts. if someone is denying facts, of anything, they are doing so most likely willfully. these types of peoples cannot really be argued with.
if someone tells you that air does not exist, and they read about it in some article. to me these types of people are not worth keeping in your life.
there is a difference to me between "differing realities" like: "i think the government should do this instead of that" and "i think the earth is the shape of a triangle". the first is fine.
that latter one is not true, but some people believe strange things like this. and i think when it comes to complete denials of facts and reality like this, these peoples are just not worth your time.
But that's a really good example of how my laziness in typing a few more words to qualify "all" to "all there's supposed to be" is how our language is simply just not working anymore. Any chance of miscommunication is virtually built into the language at this point.
However, it is a matter of irrelevance in discussing "post-truth", outside of neutral discussions about the vitriol it raises in the political arena.
For this topic, it could be Shrodinger's Gold in Fort Knox. The specific quantity is irrelevant.
Quite so. Awarded. But isn't that really the crux of the issue? Ft Knox(/Know?) has gold in it. A lot. So unless Trump literally tests/handles every single bar (in a manner that could be verified at least by him), then it's fanciful? First, I'd like to think our Prez has better things to be doing. Second, I'm not sure I would believe him, 'cuz well... just don't believe him. His relationship with absolute truth is... passing at best, IMHO. But that's policitics again, isn't it? Sigh.
I mean, it feels like we've regressed to Ancient Greece... dealing with how the Sun revolves around the Earth.
You remember when in the good ole days only surgeons and drug dealers needed pagers?
That is the crux of my issue with your post.
We have better things to be doing that discussing the gold in Ft. Knox.
That isn't politics, that is "post-truth".
Politics is convincing a majority that you are right. The charisma of leadership.
Post-Truth is ignoring truth.
if he's just a face for our robot overlord then obviously his every word is going to be fact; he's made a world out of lies already there's barely any resistance to more of them.
and he owns the establishment, so making people reflect his ideas is trivial. even when they're patently wrong.