The alternative to objective truth is scary to contemplate.
If my truth is just as valid as yours, even if they directly contradict each other, then truth loses all meaning.
It’s a short road to “Nothing is true, and everything is possible,” the ideology that journalist Peter Pomerantsev argues has taken hold in Putin’s Russia, where facts and truth are treated as endlessly malleable.
https://medium.com/westenberg/your-truth-doesnt-exist-f410161782b4
Joan Westenberg /
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2024-05-31 00:52:19
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