Sunday reading : "post - truth"

 Post - Truth

This blog is response about sunday task reading of  " post truth", this task is given by Dr. Barad sir . In this blog i'm going to discuss about what is " post truth" , and given some example of it, and also going to connect this with what is my learning in the workshop on thinking skills.

Write a defination of  "post truth".

Basically a post truth is situation in which people are less influenced by factual information than by their emotions or by beliefs they already believe and hold.

Post truth is basically concern about disputes over public truth claims. This term was used academically and publicly before 2016. Oxford dictionary popularly defined it as-

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

This defination is given by Oxford dictionary.

Here is one picture which is related to post truth. Politics deals with public emotions and their personal belief which they hold since vety long time. Simply we can say that politicians are emotionaly blackmailed poeple. Here facts going one side and people feelings going anothor side in politics. polititions are mostly not aware about facts and they just emotionaly trap peoples and play with their emotins.

 

Upon picture is shows that how people trust blindly  on  social  media, they believe that truth is a conspiracy to keep them in their place. They just ingired truth, they just want to recieve simple answer which are connected with their emotions and sentiments, they don't want to understand complex answer which are correct. Simply we can say that they don't want to apply their mind. 

This term was named in Oxford dictionaries " eorld of the year" in 2016. This also known as " post truth politics" and " post truth society".  This " post truth" is specifically connect with 21 century communication and cultural practices.

Many scholars write upon this and this subject is increasing scholarly attention and public debate, this term is mostly associated with some forms like fake or false news, rumors, hoaxes and political lying. Post truth only shares with it a general concern about knowledge, truth, and reality. It is especially studied as a media and communication studied phenomenon with particular form of truth telling.

Dicsuss a few examples of post truth.

Here, i'm going to explain " what is post - truth " or " post truth politics". And share some examples in india, and also describe brief introduction to the journey of humans persuit of truth and knowledge about it.

The history of human civilization, ways of knowing things is too vast. Few things people understand but still many things they didn't. If they can't understant things they attributed it to god and nature.

In this modern time many peoples believe that earth is flat pallat, or why did the earth shake....? God must be angry. People believes that way. In this time religion had been invested and also belief and faith get certain higher order was the basic of knowledge during this time.

Here i share some lies of indian government-

No new cases of covid - 19 after 16 may-

On 24 april, vinod paul, a member of the Niti aayog, and he is chairperson of the national task forse for covid - 19. He presented a slide that clsimed that the number of new coronavirus cases would drop to about a thousand by 10 may, and that india would see no more new cases after 16 may, and also paul said that " no need to fear of hidden spike in # covid cases. The disease is in control."  His models predicted that the cases would peak at just above 1500 cases a day. 

This is not only claim but rubbish thing by several members of another group which created the central government to advise the covid - 19 responce. This proved false. On may 10, indias had started growing at a rate if 5000 a day and reached 10,000 by the june.

The government is announcing a 20 lakh crore package for covid relief:

On 13 may, prime minister modi said  " the economic package that is being announce tiday. If added, comes to around rs20lakh crores, this oackage is about ten percent of india's GDP with this various sections of the country and those linked to economic system will get support and strength of 20 lakh crore rupees."

This economic package was annouced by modi and nirmala sitaraman the union finance minister. This types of several annoncements was a part of packege, which were already in the pipeline before the covid -19 pendamic. This type of many announcements were proven sometiomes half truth or sometimes totaly lies.

Here i share some pictures which i took from facebook page-

In this Raghuram rajan said that " This government believes only those who are right, who apploud him, rest are wrong."

Bassicaly he says that modi sarkar always believe those peoples who apploud his goverment not those people who are actualy right and have logical, knowledgeable opinion. Mostly those people apploud him who are his goverements member.

Here i share anothor picture-

Here we get to khow that pm doesn't khow about what is the number of position of india in economy country.  He should know about it, but he shoundn't.

So we could say that in india there were many politions who were not studied, many times they don't have knowledge about what are they saying. They give statment without knowing things. Most of they tells lies to get vote of people.  Sometimes they emotionally trap people and win the vote. They are just playing with peoples fealings they don't care about their fealings.

We teach many things in thinking skill workshop of milan panya sir. we learned that 

"if something is true what else has to ne true"

We are human being and we are supirior than other creatures. We are very intelligence creature, if we get or heard some statment, than we should not follow it blindly it might be wrong. We should think by ourself what is our opinion abot any statment which we recieve by anyone, might they were politiciaon, MLA, PM, or our teachers.

Your teacher might be wrong think by youself.

In this modern world T.V media, and politicians spreding wrong things and spreding lies to get vote of peoples and win elections. So we can't blindly trust anyone. 

Here i atteched my blog on thinking skill workshop of milan pandya sir, who is creaticle writer and thinker.

Thinking skill workshop by Dr.milan pandya sir

 And i embeded a video of ravish kumar on fake news

To conclude i could say that " post truth" is a situation of this modern time people, so we shoul go through about truth, search what is truth. Don't blindly trust anyone. In india most of politicions, government servents gave lie statment and emotional statment to get vote of peoples and also shows their powe to control people. So we should go through all that kind of things which is related to us and what is truth about it.

Thank you.