Post-Truth Quotes

“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

“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

“What mattered was not veracity, but impact....the triumph of the visceral over the rational, the deceptively simple over the honestly complex.”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“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

“it is a common error to confuse data with truth: the former informs the latter, but they are not the same thing”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“the modern political warrior seeks to weaponise fake news so that it becomes.....a suicide bomb at the heart of our information system”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back