The Oxford Dictionary has named the term "post-truth" the word of the year for 2016.
It's more than a fad, it is now our sad reality.
After eight years of the blatant cognitive dissonance created by outright deception: defining pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan too soon and leaving those battlefields in chaos as success; declaring that you could keep your doctor and save money under Obamacare, etc... too many Americans have accepted this new age of pretty lies.
The recent Presidential election was an orgy of perjury. Voters ultimately resorted to choosing the best liar out of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. "Do I feel better when I believe the lie that Donald Trump is a Republican, or do I get all warm and fuzzy when I pretend that Hillary isn't a criminal?"
No wonder we ended up with TrumpPence.
"Feeeeeeelings! Nothing more than feeeeeelings!" The Barry Mann song recorded by Morris Albert in 1975 is playing in my head.
The problem with making decisions based on feelings is that you're acting like a blind person. When an entire society eschews Truth for feel-good lies, we become the blind leading the blind. Because without veracity, there is no foundation for communication. This is evident in the ludicrous atmosphere of safe-spaces to shield ourselves from perceived offenses.
We might as well be grunting at each other.
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