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“To defeat your adversary and bury him is one thing. To dress him in a jester's costume and have him perform for you is another, more crushing blow. He survives to give witness ot his own powerlessness”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“The point is simply to keep the argument going, to ensure that it never reaches a conclusion (which leads to confusion, fatigue and collusion)”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“When the things you can buy online matter more to you than the things you can do in your neighbourhood; when you communicate with social media friends you never meet more than your real friends; when your notion of public space is confined to the screen in your hand: all this removes the sinew of citizenship”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“All that matters is stories feel true, they resonate....the point is not to determine the truth by a process of rational evaluation, assessment and conclusion. You choose your own reality, as if from a buffet.”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back