Post-Truth Quotes

“When it comes to communication, things never change and yet things are always changing.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

“To behave unconventionally is liable to be misinterpreted.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

“Most often, framing works because our preconceptions play a large part in helping us jump to conclusions about things. It is simply a way of connecting a message to a favourable existing belief. Our minds are full of prejudices – values, attitudes, views – through which incoming information is processed. In fact, we all know that our preconceptions are so important that once we have one lodged in our head it is hard to displace. They are the way we makes sense of the world. But […] that sense can become nonsense in the hands of those able to manipulate our thinking.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

“The real point is always buried in the subtitles.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

“It is often by our bullshit that we reveal our allegiance. Our words convey a sense of belonging to a particular club. And because it is a subtle form of communication, it is harder to fake that an explicit statement of loyalty.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

“Remember the [burnt] gooseberry tart: the polite comment tells the host nothing about the pudding, but a lot about the guest.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

“...illustrates the complex relationship between language and message. Words are intricate enough, but the way they are said adds a while extra dimension to the problem of interpretation.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

“Our language is shaped by the context in which we are communicating: we select the words that fit our function.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

“The information we are fed is largely based on the information we choose to consume.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

“Lacing prose with supposed facts that actually lack meaning is but one case of a more general habit of writing text superfluous to the goal of relaying information.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It