![]() ![]() In the Golden State, it is illegal to lie, that is, knowingly and intentionally speak a falsehood. ![]() Winters is set in the eponymous Golden State, a country whose borders seem to comprise some portion of modern-day Southern California. It is tempting, then, for members of each side to imagine us harkening back to some “pre-post-truth” world, one in which everyone was capable of making judgments based on “plain facts.” Fortunately for us, as long as the world has good science fiction writers, we will maintain the ability to examine such societal impetuses critically. ![]() Hence, the term “post-truth.” On the surface, it seems to members of one side that the other is ignoring “truth.” In the wake of the 2016 US presidential election, a meme boiled up to the surface of our cultural dialogue about us having entered an age of “post-truth.” As the election showed us, we have arrived into a societal configuration, in which two major ideological groups do not just vote for different parties, but also interpret the world in completely different ways. ![]()
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