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What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples - claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote - and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence.
Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism - specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth - in its attacks on science and facts.
McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.
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Good Content....Run 1.2x Speed or You'll Go Crazy
- By Peter on 05-17-20
By: Peter Hasson
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Troll Nation
- How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself
- By: Amanda Marcotte, David Talbot - foreword
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
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The election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign, came as a shock to many Americans. How could a man so lacking in capacity, so void of any intellectual heft, become the president of the United States? How could a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate appeal to millions of Americans, enough so that he was able to win the highest office in the land? With this book, journalist Amanda Marcotte will outline how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatism’s degradation into an ideology of blind resentment.
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Disappointing
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By: Amanda Marcotte, and others
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They Don't Represent Us
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- By: Lawrence Lessig
- Narrated by: Lawrence Lessig
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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In They Don’t Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry. But the blame does not only lie with “them” - Washington’s politicians and power brokers, Lessig argues. The problem is also “us.”
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All Americans should read/listen to this.
- By Christopher W Catron on 03-22-20
By: Lawrence Lessig
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Why We're Polarized
- By: Ezra Klein
- Narrated by: Ezra Klein
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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In Why We’re Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics.
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Good as an intro, skip if you’re a wonk
- By Tony on 01-29-20
By: Ezra Klein
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- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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In Makers and Takers, Peter Schweizer broadens his scope to examine the damaging effects of liberal philosophy on ordinary Americans. Drawing on national polls and academic studies, as well as the revealing testimony of liberals themselves, Schweizer shows that liberals are, on the whole, less honest, less generous, lazier, and more materialistic than their conservative counterparts.
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Excellent!
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By: Peter Schweizer
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The Myth of the Rational Voter
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The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book.
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Refreshing
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By: Bryan Caplan
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Red Pill, Blue Pill
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- By: David Neiwert
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Conspiracy theories are killing us. Once confined to the fringes of society, this worldview now has adherents numbering in the millions - extending right into the White House. This disturbing look at this alt-right threat to our democratic institutions offers guidance for counteracting the personal toll this destructive mindset can have on relationships and families. Author David Neiwert examines the growing appeal of conspiracy theories and the kind of personalities that are attracted to such paranoid, sociopathic messages.
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little basis in logic and reality
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By: David Neiwert
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Giving the Devil His Due
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Who is the "Devil"? And what is he due? The devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety's sake, because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn't you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence "unpleasant" ideas, what's to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times best-selling author and skeptic Michael Shermer.
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Flawed Audio
- By Private on 04-10-20
By: Michael Shermer
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In his #1 New York Times best seller, Bias, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg created a national firestorm when he exposed the liberal biases of the so-called mainstream media. Now, in his new blockbuster, Goldberg goes even further. He not only takes on Big Journalism, but offers a twelve-step program to help the media elites overcome their addiction to bias.
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wow
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Language Intelligence
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- By: Joseph J. Romm
- Narrated by: Drew Birdseye
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Joseph Romm, one of Rolling Stone magazine’s top "100 Agents of Change", has focused his talents on helping us all to increase our language intelligence and to better understand the art of persuasion. Romm demonstrates that you don't have to be an expert to vastly improve your ability to communicate. He has pulled together the secrets of the greatest communicators in history to show how you can apply these tools to your writing, speaking, blogging - even your Tweeting.
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Liberal Propaganda
- By Craig on 02-05-13
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To Save Everything, Click Here
- The Folly of Technological Solutionism
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In the very near future, smart “technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such “solutionism” affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency?
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The about face shift in view I've been looking for
- By McKane on 03-18-15
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
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In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the "Hockey Stick", a chart showing global temperature data over the past 1,000 years. The Hockey Stick demonstrated that temperature had risen with the increase in industrialization and use of fossil fuels. The inescapable conclusion was that worldwide human activity since the industrial age had raised CO2 levels, trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and warming the planet.
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Speaking truth to power
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- Marsha L. Woerner
- 09-21-21
It clearly didn't start with Trump
(As posted in Goodreads)
I enjoy hearing a book that makes immense sense and fits my "cognitive bias" on the subject. Yes, even I am affected by cognitive bias :-), but in this case, it also fits with other things that I have read and experienced from reality and friends. But yeah, I do know that I have a cognitive bias (as does everyone), of finding ways to fight it, and not immediately succumb are important as is pointed out in this book. Anyway, yes, I agree…
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- Tom
- 04-24-20
Unsatisfying Analysis of an Important Issue
Because his analysis is deeply overshadowed by current political events and the Psychopathy of the Current Occupant of the Oval Office, the book ultimately fails to address the real threat facing Western Society.
McIntyre does a good job of describing Truth and Falsehood and the struggles the culture has had in presenting Truth down through History. He recounts the confrontation of Ideology and Truth in the Tobacco hearings of the 50’s and 60’s and the strategies of corporations on Climate Change and the role of Fake News and Social Media in these battles.
His lists of the psychological issues that allow people to be receptive to falsehoods are convincing. But where I felt the book fell short was in its omission of the metaphysics of Truth and his recommendations of how to hold onto it.
He seems to say we all know Truth is important and we’re smart enough to demand it and so, we should use our Big Brains to get it. The success of the current Administration over the last three plus years prove that the American Public, at least, is not convinced of the importance of Truth or any attempt to discover it and that they’re not smart enough to get it.
Perhaps I wanted a Philosophy Text to address these issues. If so, I was disappointed, hence Three Stars.
I think the man-in-the-street tone of the narrator may also have contributed.
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- Stephen Harrison
- 08-03-21
Solid Overview; Challenge to Fight Post-Truth
Lee C. McIntyre’s POST-TRUTH fulfils its purpose – helping the reader understand post-truth – while also encouraging us to fight back against the lies and affirm that the truth still matters. McIntyre provides an excellent overview of the post-truth change, and specifically the concept that facts are subordinate to one’s political point of view. The book is particularly strong when describing anti-science sentiment, and reveals how hired-gun merchants of doubt in the fossil fuel industry manipulated the media to suggest that climate change was “controversial” and still under significant scientific debate. This led the public to have a false impression that the evidence for climate change was still seriously disputed by scientific efforts. There is a chapter on various cognitive biases, such as the confirmation bias, that some readers might find too high-level, but is fitting as a summary for this MIT Essential Knowledge series. McIntyre is particularly strong in discussing the connection between post-truth and post-modernism, and includes quotes from post-modern scholars who have offered up mea culpas after post-modern ideas have been hijacked by authoritarians. The most heartening chapter for me included strategies for fighting back against post-truth, which include supporting traditional journalism organizations and challenging falsehoods immediately before allowing them to fester. Overall, I highly recommend this short book.
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- Iris Stammberger
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Acessible and organized analysis
5 factors that influence our current and polarized political climate are used as categories under which McIntyre details one of the biggest challenges to democracy: untruth as a political currency.
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- Federico Marcon
- 06-01-23
superficial treatment of a fundamental problem
I was overall disappointed by this book. Fake news and post-truth is the fundamental predicament of our age, and the source of our domination. The author identified the political and economic motivation behind the condition of post-truth. But epistemological truth is not by necessity based on unmediated objectivity. It is rather based on the soundness of the epistemological labor. The chapter on academic postmodernism is the worst of the book.
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- SM
- 06-14-19
The only interesting chapter was chapter 6
This chapter deals with the right-wing "hijacking" of leftist post-modernist theories, which reminds the "hijacking" of democratic institutions by what would develop into fascist regimes (see Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism").
The rest of the book, and especially the last chapter ("what can WE do about it") is an extremely abridged introduction to social psychology, communications research, and the Trump 2016 campaign.
I guess I set my expectations too high.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-21-19
A gift for that uncle of yours
A thorough covering of a timely topic. Meaty stuff. A potential gift for those struggling with current events.
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- Helery Tõkke
- 10-01-22
Really nicely narrated and good info. #Trump
I actually am a huge Trump supporter. This book did not change that but just opened my eyes on how things are done.
A lot of good info on how to spot fake news... although... seems that most of it is that. So... better to avoid all news! :D Anyway, good book - eyeopening. Thank you!
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-06-22
A politicallly motivated partisan diatribe!
This treatise on "truth" will make those on the left side of the political spectrum beam with pride, because, according to the author, they recognise and accept truth and the right does not. This book is industrial grade gaslighting.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-21
Full of conceit, contempt, and weak arguments.
Disappointing, and only for people that have their minds already made up. McIntyre starts confrontational, and sets a derisive tone for the work that can put people off that are not 100% on board already. It put me off at least. I continued though, at the request of a friend. McIntyre then pulls from several good studies, but does a poor job using them to support arguments. Ironically, some of the assertions made can be thrown right back at McIntyre using the same studies. Worse, the further you go in the work, the less academic it becomes. It was around the point where McIntyre starts ranting about Rush Limbaugh that I turned it off. Honestly a very embarrassing work. I feel bad for the narrator. Josdal did a good job.
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