True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society
by Farhad Manjoo
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Author: Farhad ManjooEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-03-17
ISBN: 0470050101
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Wiley
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Book Review: Good writing, disturbing conclusions!
Summary: 5 Stars
I could not put this book down. Just more evidence (if you needed it), that creatures evolved for finding edible berries, fleeing predators, and making cohesive social groups, have few tools for discerning complex truths. And those few tools are hard to use! Much easier to go with our instincts, or guts, or hearts, or feelings. Easier, quicker, but so very deceptive.
I appreciate, too, that he did not end the book with a feel-good formula for fixing things... there is none. The only solution is hard thinking.
Summary of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society
The comedian Stephen Colbert’s catchy neologism captured something essential about our age: that people are now more comfortable with ideas that feel true, even if the evidence for those beliefs is thin. In subtle and fascinating exploration, Salon writer Farhad Manjoo explains what’s powering this phenomenon. He explores how new technologies that give us control over what we see and read has caused "reality" to split across political and cultural lines, allowing opposing groups to subscribe not only to different opinions from each other, but also different facts.With brilliant insights from psychology, sociology, and economics, Manjoo explains how myths pushed by both partisans and marketers—whether about global warming, the war in Iraq, 9/11, or even the virtues of a certain candy bar—have attracted wide support in recent years. His characters include the Swift Boat Veterans, Lou Dobbs, and conspiracy theorists of all varieties, all of whom prove that true matters less, now, than true enough.
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