Post-truth
Post-truth: the communicative regime where factual truth loses weight to emotion and tribal affinity.
Post-truth describes the contemporary communicative regime where factual truth loses weight to emotion and tribal affinity. Oxford 'word of the year 2016' after Brexit and Trump. Lee McIntyre, Harry Frankfurt (On Bullshit, 2005) and Vladimir Volkov analyze it as systematic indifference to verification. Consequences for liberal democracy are grave: erosion of rational public debate, vulnerability to organized disinformation, affective polarization.
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