Meaning of post-truth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Beyond or superseding the importance of truth.
   not-comparable
2. Pertaining to an era or situation when truth is no longer significant, relevant, or expected.
   not-comparable
3. Uncaring or disregarding factual accuracy.
   derogatory, not-comparable, usually

Examples

“He is, he claims, post-God, post-reality, post-truth, post-meaning, post- history, post-world, post-Western […]”

“Victims or exiles should not repeat any longer what everybody already knows in the new 'post-truth' world order – that they are among numerous contemporary victims of war crimes and military violence […]”

“Clearly quite a lot of journalism is post-truth . . . More important, perhaps, is journalism's post-truth tendency . . . to make no propositions for which there is a possible 'true/false' response.”

“In the post-truth world, the people are saturated by a plurality of discourses that are struggling for the consent of the audience, the difference being that the explosion of messages that characterises modernity is no longer stamped with the 'authority' of their authors.”

“In Christianity Today, columnist Charles Colson bemoaned our “post-truth society,” which produces liars such as Tawana Brawley, David Brock, and Stephen Ambrose.”

“Avoiding a cacophony is a worthy objective, because Australia has managed to largely sidestep the post-truth hellscape the US has endured during the pandemic because politicians, by and large, have chosen to inhabit a universe of shared facts and common messages.”

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