I knew this would happen... [View all]
Ever since the coined term of "fake news" started getting used, I knew that it would immediately lose any weight it had ASAP.
As soon as Trump started calling legit news sources fake news, I knew his followers would take that concrete and slap it right down on their faces, further solidifying any chance at them opening their eyes and trying to learn for a moment.
So not only do we live in a post truth world now, we live in a world where people's emotions are given more validity than facts. And this is happening en masse.
A nation guided by emotion rather than logic? Oh boy.
And how do you approach emotion with logic? In my experience, you don't! You wait for emotion to calm down and then you reason with it. But looking at this hate machine that's been raging on for years and is now getting the fresh fuel of false legitimacy, I don't really see a point where the walls of emotion will lower.
Do you?
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