Post-Truth Era
By IonuțPopescu Ph.D.
Head of the Greek-Catholic
Faculty, Oradea, Romania
Our presentation is a reflection on the status of
education in the context of the so-called post-truth. The term designates a
situation in which public opinion is formed rather according to the emotions
and personal beliefs of individuals than by facts,
and became known especially after it was used to explain the difference between
the polls and the result in the presidential elections in The United States in
2016 and the vote on Britain's exit from the European Union. Emotion-based
views are not new, the strategy of circumventing deeds in establishing truth is
older[,
but only now does it turn out to be a characteristic of the age because
ofconsequences magnitude and the fact that its disclosure does not invalidate
its effects. In other words, people freely accept[ as truth a theory that they know the facts contradict. It is true that the
reporting to these facts is not direct, but mediated by the press or other informative
means, we speak of post-truth in situations such as the Moon landing of the
American astronauts, the 9/11, in 2001, the effects of smoking on health, the
reasons for invading Iraq in 2003, global warming, vaccines.......
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