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Contents contributed and discussions participated by John Bocskay

John Bocskay

Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 - chicagotribune.com - 1 views

  • There was an erosion of any kind of collective sense of what's true or how you would go about verifying any truth claims
  • Opinion has become the new truth.
  • Anybody can express an opinion on a blog or any other outlet and there's no system of verification or double-checking, you just say whatever you want to and it gets magnified. It's just kind of a bizarre world in which one person's opinion counts as much as anybody else's
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  • I think the thing Americans ought to miss most about facts is the lack of agreement that there are facts. This means we will never reach consensus about anything.
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    Humor piece that raises a serious question- has the rise of the internet with its preponderance of "facts" killed the possibility of consensus?
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