How many times have you gotten into an argument with a friend, colleague or family member—or, even worse, with a stranger on social media—and stated what you thought was a clear-cut fact, only to hear the response, “Well, that’s your view”, or “That’s one way of looking at it”? These responses—often polite, sometimes aggressive—are examples of the insidious and disturbingly common phenomenon of ‘post-truth’. Defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief,” post-truth has become so prevalent that the term was ‘word of the year’ in 2016. Have we moved too far away from objective truth, to the extent that even proven facts about the world can be conveniently dismissed if we don’t like them?
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