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Putting an end to political nonsense
Truth was fake; fake was true. And that’s when the problem suddenly snapped into focus. Throughout recent centuries anyone growing up in a western democracy had believed that it was necessary to have facts. Without facts, societies could be extremely dark places. Facts were essential to informed debates, to progress, to coherence, to justice.
from Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- Truth, by contrast, reduces contingency. We cannot build a stable community or stable democracy on a mass of contingencies. Democracy requires binding values and ideals, and shared convictions. Today, democracy gives way to infocracy.
from All That Is Solid Melts Into Information by Noema
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