Brexit and Trump’s election resulted from rather than caused post-truth
Evidence
This is why I believe that we have our best shot at understanding post-truth by exploring the factors that led up to it. Although the Brexit vote and the US presidential election may seem inextricably tied up with post-truth, neither was the cause of it—they were the result. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 53
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘symptoms not cause’ framing parallels the earlier Milgrom note that institutions emerge to solve prior information problems rather than causing them. — connects to: Fact-challenging arises from motive to protect beliefs and enables political domination — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 49; Post-truth politics in the US has reinforced European distrust of media institutions — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 38; Post-truth is a choice of response to reality, not a fixed condition (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Post-truth politics in the US has reinforced European distrust of media institutions
#complicates(0.75) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 38 - Post-truth is a choice of response to reality, not a fixed condition
#expands(0.75) - Post-truth roots lie in ancient cognitive bias, academic relativism, and media change
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