Page 14 - Post Truth News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. How do you feel when you read these words? Many in our world might agree with them. Or then again, many in our world will feel suspicious. After all, the world is really rather chaotic nowadays, isn’t it? And in such a time, one certainly doesn’t have to admire Marx (I know I don’t!) to agree with him that ‘all that is solid melts into air.’ Or again, you don’t have to love Yeats (although many of us most certainly do) to feel a certain dark foreboding as you bring to mind once more his ever-unsettling refrain:

Culture 14:00 14/12/2020 The House of European History has reopened after the second coronavirus shutdown with Fake for Real, an exhibition which retraces the history of forgery and falsification in Europe from the Trojan Horse to the deep rabbit holes currently created on the internet. The show is broken into six themes but also has a chronological timeline. Among the 200 objects, lent by 30 European institutions, are a Japanese mermaid, a forged Vermeer that fooled Hermann Göring and a fake supermarket. Among the stories told are a fake army used by the allies in the second world war and t...

Happened, but once upon a time, you had people like mitch mcconnell and mccarthy and other leaders, they were considered establishment rhinos. they weren't trusted by people like, say, jim jordan or mark meadows. now they're all on one page when it comes to donald trump. look, i think what you have here is not -- it's not just spin. it's contradicting the actual report, but really it's creating an alternate universe, an alternate reality. that's what's really scary about this. it's the post-truth, your truth, my truth, post-fact republican party that we have right now. it's not about defending...

Of eight, matt, which means he's briefed on sensitive intelligence matters. does that make his lies even more troubling to you? >> yeah, i think it does. it's interesting what's happened to the republican party. i mean so many things have happened, but once upon a time, you had people like mitch mcconnell and mccarthy and other leaders, they were considered establishment rhinos. they weren't trusted by people like, say, jim jordan or mark meadows. now they're all on one page when it comes to donald trump. look, i think what you have here is not -- it's not just spin. it's contradicting the act...

Of post-truth and post-reason politics there will be an element of the republican party that remains very strong, particularly in flyover states where democrats continue to try to perform better. but what we have seen from donald trump and his behavior today with giuliani is the inev itability of the moment. they always wanted it from day one. the reality is it was donald trump's behavior that inevitably to lead to this. i think most people that covered it or watched it closely knew that we would get to an impeachment moment like we saw today. it's no less unsettling that it was inevitable, an...