While a lie subverts a specific truth, post-truth tries to subvert truth itself. Post-truth is a murky concept, but it should not be confused with a lie. Post-truth is much more devious and dangerous to the democratic fabric of our society. Post-truth is the belief that truth is no longer essential, that truth has become obsolete.
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While the genealogy of post-truth is partly traceable to the world of corporate advertising and market-driven entertainment, it has thoroughly political qualities. In the hands of the powerful, or those bent on climbing the ladders of power over others, the post-truth phenomenon functions as a new weapon of political manipulation.
Post-truth is not only about winning votes, siding with friends, or dealing with political foes. It has more sinister effects. It is a gaslighting exercise. Gaslighting is typically a preferred tactic of narcissistic and aggressive personalities bent on doing whatever it takes to gain and maintain a position of advantage over others.
Their point is to disorient and destabilise people. When for instance gaslighters say something, only later to say that they never said such a thing and that they would never have never dreamed of saying such a thing, their aim is gradually to turn citizens into mere playthings of power. When that happens, the victims of gaslighting no longer trust their own judgements.
They buy into the tactics of the manipulator. Not knowing what to believe, they give up, shrug their shoulders and fall by default under the spell of the gaslighter. Consider the double act of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and his former right-hand gaslighter, Ernesto Abella, in the sequence of events triggered by the murder in November of Rolando Espinosa, the elected mayor of Albuera, an island community some kilometres from Manila.
When asked by journalists to explain what had happened, Duterte reportedly said :. The policemen said he resisted arrest. Then I will stick with the story of the police because [they are] under me. Since I have nothing to show, I just use extrajudicial killing. He added:. This is his messaging style to underline his intention. He is serious about it [the drug menace].
The meandering rhetoric is designed to bewitch and beguile, which is why the critics of post-truth are sounding alarms and issuing stern warnings about the dangerous charms of the vaudeville show of political mendacity, nonsense, buffoonery and silence.
Complaints against post-truth are often robust, loud and couched in high moral tones. The descriptors are questionable, and display little understanding of the historical originality of the present drift towards government by gaslighting. Lying in politics is an ancient art. Still, there are several things that are unusual about the gaslighting trends of our time. Each is bound up with the unfinished communications revolution.
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