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In this blog I am going to discuss the concept or we can say the word Post-truth which is given by Dilip sir from The English Department and it's a part of a Sunday reading. Thinking is a must for any kind of Debate, Doubt and Solution. So, to know the true way of thinking check out my blog on Thinking Skills by Professor Milan Pandya.
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POST:-The word has so many meanings like upright support, job, employment , lookout, station, mail service (noun), situate, position, advise, inform (verb) etc. Post also used a suffix like post-modernism, post-graduate, postpone, postmortem, post-Colonial etc. TRUTH:-We all are aware of the word truth that simply means honesty, loyalty, reality, validity (noun).
Now let's see the meaning of the word when it's combined. Post-truth is an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’.
WORD OF THE YEAR:-
The German tradition, Wort des Jahres (Word of the Year) was started in 1971. Each December, a German word or word group is named in a linguistic review of the year. The oldest Word of the Year "aufmüpfig" (German word) means Rebellious, insubordinate and this word was chosen because of the Characterization of the 1960s counterculture, especially the German student movement.
As the Word of the year some there were also terms called Word of the Decade, Word of the Past Millennium, Word of the 20th Century, Un-Word of the year, Youth Word of the Year, word of the month etc. As the Oxford Dictionary gives Word of the year there were also many Dictionaries, Society and others choose Word of the year like American Dialect Society, Australian National Dictionary Center, Collins English Dictionary, Macquarie Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Oxford, Grant Barrett, Dictionary.com etc.
POST-TRUTH WORD OF THE YEAR(2016):-
According to Wikipedia The Word of the Year need not have been coined within the past twelve months but it does need to have become prominent or notable during that time. There is no guarantee that the Word of the Year will be included in any Oxford dictionary. The Oxford Dictionaries Words of the Year are selected by editorial staff from each of the Oxford dictionaries. The selection team is made up of lexicographers and consultants to the dictionary team, and editorial, marketing, and publicity staff.
From 2004 Oxford Dictionary started to give word of the year under the rules which i described above. The word of the year 2004 was CHAV. Interestingly in 2012 the very famous word of this century, GIF, was declared as a US word of the year. In 2015 surprisingly 😂 (Face with Tears of Joy emoji) this emoji was declared as a US and UK word of the year. After the word of the year 2016 Post-truth Oxford Dictionary declared Aadhar as a Hindi Word of the year 2017. 2020 is considered as a blank year in UK and US word of the year. And the recent 2021 word of the year was vax.
Oxford Dictionary declared POST-TRUTH as a word of the year on the basis of the Brexit referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the US.
WHAT IS POST-TRUTH?:-
"When the mistakes fall disproportionately on one side, it is no respect for the notion of truth to pretend that everything is even."
- Lee McIntyre
"The mob believes everything it is told, provided only that it be repeated over and over. Provided that its passions, hatreds, fears are catered to. Nor need one try to stay within the limits of plausibility: on the contrary, the grosser, the bigger, the cruder the lie, the more readily is it believed and followed. Nor is there any need to avoid contradictions: the mob never notices; needless to pretend to correlate what is said to some with what is said to others: each person or group believes only what he is told, not what anyone else is told; needless to strive for coherence: the mob has no memory; needless to pretend to any truth: the mob is radically incapable of perceiving it: the mob can never comprehend that its own interests are what is at stake.”
- Alexandre Koyré
Post-truth is a term referred to as a documentation of and deals with disputes over public truth claims. The term was used academically and publicly before 2016. But the Oxford dictionary made it more popular after 2016.The French philosopher Bruno Latour has been criticized for contributing to the intellectual foundations for post-truth. In 2018, the New York Times ran a profile on Bruno Latour and post-truth politics. Hannah Arendt has been cited as an important conceptual resource for post-truth theory.
"What these problem-solvers have in common with down-to-earth liars is the attempt to get rid of facts and the confidence that this should be possible because of the inherent contingency of facts."
- Arendt writes
Carl Sagan's words are thought to be a prediction of a "post-truth" or "alternative facts" world. For more details you can also watch a video based on Post-truth.
SOME OF THE EXAMPLE OF POST-TRUTH:-
- One of the best examples of Post-truth is a trendy one of Donald Trump lies.
- The very known and Our favorite Shushant Singh Rajput died a few years ago and Aaj Tak News telecast or we can say published a fake news of the last word of Sushant Singh Rajput that we can see in the below picture.
- Nowadays most of the students of the English Department getting Requests from fake accounts of HOD, Dilip Sir on Instagram and many students who don't know that it's a fake account get trapped and accept the request.
- This is an example of a Corona time report published by THE HINDU newspaper on bets study.
- Not only These newspapers but the Dainik Bhaskar is also on the way. Dainik Bhaskar published fake news using a poor girl, now facing public criticism online.
- The news and all the Drug cases which happened a few years ago were full of rumours and fake News which we can't deny and published by several newspapers.
For more Understanding of Post-truth click below:-
- BBC News on POST-TRUTH
- Dilip Barad's Blog on POST-TRUTH
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