On Truth, Connection, and Disconnection

(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.comand Steve’s Tumblr)

In an age of propaganda and post-truth politics,we face people believing outlandish falsehoods and obvious propaganda and acting upon it. How do people become so disconnected from reality? Disconnection is the appropriate term,because some people seek to cut the strands of knowledge that helps us find truths – and some cut their own strands deliberately.

I’ve heard it said that we’re in a post-truth era in 2016, where the idea...