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ESSAY: You Are the Product by John Lanchester

I've come across this article as a translated version of the Dutch magazine 'De Groene Amsterdammer' the original can be found at : https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product

BOOK: Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back by Matthew D'ancona

I was specifically drawn to the 'How to Fight Back' description on the cover. This chapter starts with some solutions whereby we have to count on the Gatekeepers such as google and facebook to acknowledge their responsibility. Personally, I wouldn't count on this since they are a big cause of the problem in the first place. The writer also put's hope in (BBC's) journalism, The BBC tries to fact-check the most popular outliers in Facebook fair enough, but quite a lot of work for a news station. Also, this could be interesting to compare this approach with Noam Chomsky's view on journalism. Further along, it claims that Post-truth is an emotional phenomenon. It concerns the attitude to truth rather than truth itself. The counter-attack should be therefor emotionally intelligent. In the last page one of biggest conclusions would be that: If people want an end to the post-truth era they must want it themselves. We often regret our early passivity only when it is too late.

In general, it was an interesting book for my thesis, it also directed me to new points of interests:

  • Nietzsche's quote ' there are no facts, only interpretations'
  • Nietzsche's point that Culture should replace Scripture.
  • Sara E. Gorman and Jack M Gorman, who researched, the Neurologic basis of why we ignore the facts that will save us?
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