New Discourses Age of Narratives and the Postmodern Democratic Political Regime
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Apr 13, 2020 AI Snips
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Struggle To Know Truth Today
- Many people, including James Lindsay and his friends, struggle to know what is true anymore, especially since 2015.
- Mainstream media and academia often sacrifice credibility for agendas, complicating trust in truth.
Loss Of Trust In Truth
- Modern society used to have institutions that made people feel they could tell what was true.
- Now that sense is fading, making it hard for people to believe in any kind of objective truth.
Truth As Authority-Defined Narrative
- Postmodernism argues truth depends on who has authority to define it, making truth a political construct.
- Different narratives create different realities, undermining universal truth claims.