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As people talk about filter bubbles and whether -- how we're absorbing media. as we looked at the words we've been tracking over the past year, this one really struck us as resonating with the kind of themes and spirit of 2016. >> is it resonating because it infers the truth is occasionally dead? >> well, it's based on a critique that says that it -- that the truth has become less important or less difficult to identify. you know, post usually means after, like post-war, but in post-truth it's more like post-racial or post-national, it means something more like no longer relevant, no longer as...

You know. that whole era, that was the perfect storm, if you watch this episode tonight, you'll see. it was a combination of not just the music but the social implications. post war, america post war, england. and the communications that were -- we were capable of at the time, which was fairly new. international air travel, you know, was really only beginning to take off. and, you know, all the other aspects of communicating, like we're seeing today. now with the internet, of course. back then it was, as i say, this kind of perfect storm that just took the world by storm. >> did you feel at al...

On a corporate level or an individual level has expanded. the rich people are getting richer. the government empowered are getting bigger. the middle class is getting squeezed. that's how i see it. >> no, i think you're right david and one of the problems is that we have democrats and progressives that look back to the golden area of the mid sen ri, post war where you had strong unions and manufacturing jobs that don't exist in the numbers they do today. but now we live in an information age. with very to change our tactics and one of the big things left out of the conversation and what made t...

Was on fire. we could see buildings on fire all throughout the ground below us, as we drove into town, we could see looters out in the streets. >> in retrospect, given the scope and size of the issues that we faced so quickly, did we know what we were getting into? >> i'm a civilian side, you can argue that the civilian plans were written on a bunch of assumptions that turned out not to be true. they thought that there was the same kind of post-war situation there had been in 1991. it didn't turn out right. so the civilian plans were sort of based on the wrong assumptions. military plans were ...

Not even under conversation right now. the post-war, if you will, american foreign policy looks like, we've got 300 soldiers a week coming back from camp pendleton, 3,000 will come back to the naval base in san diego. we're moving to a different period of time. it would appear to be a moment for whoever the u.s. president is to attempt to shape a new paradigm in diplomacy, period. >> i'm curious from your perspective, both perspectives, as to which will drive that new policy and that paradigm more, the annual necessity or the availability, the opportunity for us to be policing the world or tho...