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Posted by: Chicken N. Backpacks ( )
Date: November 16, 2016 11:54PM

Well, sort of.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/post-truth-word-of-the-year-2016-oxford-dictionaries/

Post truth:
Adjective: "Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."

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Posted by: quatermass2 ( )
Date: November 18, 2016 01:29PM

This is truly shocking.

Perhaps my own personal outlook on this is shaped by my experience of Asperger's Syndrome; basically, this limits emotional responses and subdues them to logic.

"Spock-like" has been used to describe us.

For me, at the grand old age of 54, it was a genuine shock to discover that most people navigate the world emotionally, and in terms of internal states rather than rationality.

Personally, I am still coming to terms with this shock.

In a much wider context, I really don't know what the 'rest of the world' can do in terms of behaving more rationally, based on logic.

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