What is truth? Is there an absolute truth? Does truth exist at all?
Why are there different words for truth, reality and actuality?
Whatever you consider the truth, it has a frail health. It can be distorted, twisted, hidden and even blown away in any which way.
In the last couple of years, the question of what truth is has become a pressing one. The consequences of different views on 'truths' have led to tectonic changes in the political landscape all across the Western hemisphere. In 2016, both in the USA and in UK propaganda campaigns were conducted that, like any hard-hitting propaganda campaign, were based on base emotions, false promises, fantasies presented as facts, and one-liners presented as policy based on truth. Upon close inspection, most of it, if not all of it, was nonsense. But who has the time and who wants to pay the effort and hours to inspect the utterances of politicians more closely? The news media? They have been cast aside as 'fake news' and now all promote some political agenda or another of the owners. The social media? They offer a degree of negativity and uninformed trolling like nobody has ever seen in the history of Man. The end result was that about half of the electorate believed the propaganda campaigns. It was like flipping a coin and this time the coin fell twice on heads for the trolls.
When so many people believe something, however outrageous it may be, it becomes a foundation of policy, news channels and education. And therefore one must understand the mechanisms behind how such new 'truths' can become actual truths.
