Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It - Evan Davis
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Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us ‘your call is important to us’. How did we get to a place where bullshit is not just rife but apparently so effective that it’s become the communications strategy of our times?
This brilliantly insightful book steps inside the panoply of deception employed in all walks of life and assesses how it has come to this. It sets out the surprising logic which explains why bullshit is both pervasive and persistent. Why are company annual reports often nonsense? Why should you not trust estate agents? And above all, why has political campaigning become the art of stretching the truth? Drawing on behavioural science, economics, psychology and of course his knowledge of the media, Evan ends by providing readers with a tool-kit to handle the kinds of deceptions we encounter every day, and charts a route through the muddy waters of the post-truth age.
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This post has 23 comments with rating of 2.3/5
December 28th, 2021
“Safe and effective.”
December 28th, 2021
With Trump dumped, Boris all but done and Brexit proven to be the clusterduck anyone with a brain already knew it would be, we are post peak BS. Time to stop the distraction of the so called “Culture Wars,” and follow the money corruption and greed.
December 28th, 2021
GK78: I think in the main you are correct, but I am afraid I am a bit less sanguine about your “Trump dumped” observation in light of the daily revelations about his followers. In any case, this looks to be an interesting read.
December 28th, 2021
Evan Davis is just another partisan hack who believes lying only occurs on the opposite side of the culture war divide.
December 28th, 2021
It wouldn’t be Christmas without the gift of another piece of Leftist-fiction obsessed with a man who is no longer President and who proved to be a far greater leader than the clown-in-chief that followed.
After all, it’s not bull poop that good old Joe literally called on himself to go f*** himself on national TV is it?
2021 has been a wonderful year, it has shown clearly that our generation is the most deranged in history.
December 28th, 2021
> Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting — from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us ‘your call is important to us’.
The apparent signs and implications here, not to mention the book itself, are as follows: (i) virtue-signalling by the author “I’m a good liberal-progressive”, (ii) “as such I cannot possibly engage in any BS myself, so whatever I say can only be true”, and (iii) “there was so much BS associated with both Trump and Brexit”.
While (i) is most certainly true, speaking of (ii) and (iii) some would argue that the opposite is true, meaning that progressives are not exactly paragons of virtue themselves, and a lot more BS could be found on the side of both anti-Trump and anti-Brexit camps.
In other words, what the author seemingly assumes by default: “when it comes to OUR CAMP, we are clean as a whistle, and when it comes to THEIR CAMP, they are full of BS”.
“Tricking the senses and the mind into seeing what isn’t there or believing what isn’t true is a very old game” (*)
(*) hint: it may have something to do with moral relativism, that magical flip-flop binoculars-megaphone combo device, so important and indispensable for many in modern day politics and perception industry (a.k.a. media)
December 28th, 2021
@Thamus This book is not aimed at any political sphere. It of course includes Donald Trump, as he is a very popular figure who utilizes and abuses such strategies. It would also be worthy to notice that Evan Davis, the author, is not a leftist. For example, he argues for the privatization of public services and etc. In fact, a lot of conservatives condemn Donald Trump as he is far too polarizing and is not a valid or a good presidential figure.
@GordonCoon I would refer you to read the same reply that I have provided to Thamus. This is not a political book, but such a book cannot be written without referring to Donald Trump. He is the definition of this book, the perfect example of it. Given as he has over 20,000 documented lies, with an average of 20 per day. This sort of deception is at an unprecedented level. It is not possible to write this book without using him.
December 28th, 2021
If he believes them, they’re not technically lies. That might be a variant of the Costanza doctrine.
December 29th, 2021
Banal mass-market drivel.
December 29th, 2021
@alnilam nice logical fallacy you’ve got there. Much along the lines of people who react to the phrase “black lives matter” with “why are you implying that white lives don’t matter?”, you’ve managed to entirely miss the point.
Significantly more lies were told by Trump and the pro-Brexit campaign than by those who opposed them. Those lies were the ones that had the biggest impact on peoples lives. Those facts don’t care about your feelings.
December 29th, 2021
Lol. Bless, there’s Jack, once again showing his prowess for licking windows rather than political brilliance.
One of the best things about the Trump-deranged is that they keep asserting “he told lots of lies” without substantiating this (using your own “opinion havers”, since Facebook demoted “fact-checkers” in court, doesn’t count) and that this was “more lies than the side I support” (again with no substantiation).
The simplest check of a man’s intelligence in 2021 and going forward into 2022 is that if he believes a word coming out of any politician’s mouth, he is an abject fool that shouldn’t even be trusted with the remote control.
Time to hang up your keyboard Jack and go back to making those windows shine.
December 29th, 2021
@GordonCoon.
1) There is no doubt whatsoever Trump is a serial liar and this is a pattern of behaviour established long before he became a politician.
2) Despite knowing his faults they were excused by supporters citing HRC’s “Crimes.” He neither locked her up nor built the wall.
3) The pretense that he is no worse than the “Establishment,” he very much is a part of just wont wash. We had four years of is farcical, revolving door administration. Not to mention the rampant criminality within his inner circle.
4) Calling supporters to attempt to prevent democratic process is that act of tyro dictator.
December 29th, 2021
gk78
1. Known to whom? Rabid lefists? Because your facts have no evidence, they aren’t facts. They’re hyperbole.
2. So what? I didn’t vote for him. Wouldn’t have voted for him if I’d have had the opportunity to do so either. I certainly wouldn’t have voted for Clinton either, though. Can you not read? If you can, go back and read what I wrote, if not? Why are you spouting nonsense here?
3. Again, so what? Biden’s sell out to China, hyper-inflation, grotesquely incompetent regime is better? Maybe, if you like clown costumes on your presidents.
4. You made this bit up. It literally never happened, no matter how much you and the clown posse think it did, it didn’t.
And this is why nobody trusts the left, you live in a fantasy world.
December 29th, 2021
Doorstop…
December 29th, 2021
@GordonCoon the more you comment, the dumber you end up looking. Keep it up.
December 29th, 2021
Safe and Effective
December 30th, 2021
@GordonCoon why not talk in a respectful manner? I would propose that rather than taking shots and attempting to score points, we should instead unite as citizens and critique all politicians. Whether they are democrats or republicans.
As you have pointed out with Biden, politicians regardless of party mostly work for their selves (apart from a few democrats, such as Bernie Sanders and AOC). The way the vast majority of politicians behave is that they use the office as an attempt to enrich their selves and others within their group.
I would still however choose Biden over Trump, because at least he has frozen student loan payments and etc. At the very least, he’s given a few crumbs. He’s a lot less polarizing. Trump was the opposite of that. So you must understand, that he was a better choice for the US, but of course, he still sucks ass and we can do a lot better.
December 31st, 2021
@alnilam
I think that you hit the nail on the head.
December 31st, 2021
@A.B.B
You are vastly overestimating GordonCoon.
He is a far-right troll. Nothing more. He has no interest in “being respectful” and “uniting as citizens”. He is only concerned with p1ssing in the soup and showing his fascist a$s at every opportunity.
Do not attempt to reason with it. That way madness lies.
December 31st, 2021
@tenbenson I disagree. It was made to be polarizing on purpose. I can’t then blame people for viewing it as one side versus the other.
I believe that if we reply without personal attacks while remaining constructive, we can fix it. It is not right vs left. It is the rich, or elites as they are often called, versus the poor. Schmucks like us that have to steal audiobooks because we can’t afford them.
I can crap on the left with him no problem, most of the politicians on that side are terrible too. Only very few actually attempt to even out the playing field.
December 31st, 2021
Dont bother with these trolls. They dont care about facts or truth, its why books like this exist. You cant win them over with evidence either, because they always have some excuse to dismiss what they dont like. Usually something about it being lies because they hate him and they will say anything, bla bla bla. There is actually an online database of all the lies Trump told, about 31K of them. You can look at every single one, how often he repeated it, where he said it. But these are the same clowns who think fact checking is a radical left conspiracy (except when it agrees with them, then its fine). Which is absurd, because fact checking groups provide references for anyone to verify that facts for themselves. They also outline the process in which they are checked, so you can learn how to do it yourself. But its too much for these folks to actually do their own fact checking, and they wont listen to anyone who did it for them, because its all some crazy conspiracy. The trump derangement is very strong in these folks. By that, i mean the actual defined definition of TDS, which is the opposite of what right wingers go around saying. Its actually about them, not the left. But i wouldnt expect them to know how to read, let alone have a copy of the DSM manual. To them, having enough like minded sheeple that believe the same thing as them is enough for it to be true. But the Trumper motto is, Dont bother me with the facts, who needs thems, when I got lots of sensitive snowflake feelings that matter more and are my truth. Dont look up!
February 20th, 2022
What he said.
February 20th, 2022
It used to be, one political party would say “The glass is half empty and that is the fault of the opposing party”
They would say “The glass is half full, and only through our efforts has it gotten that way, if not for us it would be less”
The truth, but with their own spin.
Now Democrats are saying half empty and Republicans are saying “it’s not a glass, it’s a spaceship and it’s going to fly us all to a better place”
Scary times.
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