I don't quite agree with this. People have always been, and can only be, interested in factual truth imo. Utility is still factual truth.
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Nah. A warrior who believes he is fighting for God is more useful to a state than a secular one, because he will be more motivated and more willing to fight on against all odds to the very end.
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AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! That scream felt good, and was thus useful, and is therefore a fact.
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Are we better at recognizing, or has the plethora of information only made it easier to discredit what does not serve our utility?
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Hmm, I like your answer better.
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Are we really much better at recognizing it? Or is it our relatively recent unlimited access to vast bs that makes the volume more apparent?
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Both. I think our unlimited access to vast bullshit makes us better at recognizing bullshit overall.
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Disagreed, the basic belief that journalistic and political speech shld have even the slightest cnxn to reality have vanished
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I think the terms are useful when applied narrowly: “Trump’s style of campaigning was uniquely post-factual compared to other candidates”.
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Surely you could use another word instead, such as "propagandist", "demagogic", "deceptive", "dishonest", "manipulative"?
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