This article in 'The Federalist' is as senseless as the one written by 'Time Magazine'. In fact, they are two different versions of 'subjective truth'. The 'objective' truth is likely as extinct as the dinosaur - and this is why I believe we have come to that point (my comment, you can find it in the comment section): ________________________________________ The truth is independent of what the media (or anyone else) says - unless one is a mindless bovine that expects to be spoon-fed all their thoughts, ideas and information...including those things which are critical. Under such illogical conditions, 'fake news' is often embraced as truth. This is what research is for. Whether one stops at the MSM and their self-chosen 'social posturing group' for their research or are far too lazy to do the work necessary to arrive at truth, such as going on a journey to see for themselves, then the fault belongs to nobody but themselves. To go even further, truth is wholly immaterial to those who are biased, bigoted and/or suffer from cognitive dissonance. In such cases (and they are myriad), all the research in the world will not help them. They have already made up their subjective minds. Regardless, we will always arrive at the objective truth - which is that people are very quick to blame others and far too unlikely to accept responsibility for their own lack of diligence and/or comprehension. Mud-slinging (or opinion slinging) serves no purpose with regard to establishing truth. The same is true with respect to ethics. For truth and ethics to be established, there is only dignified, patient, tolerant and responsible debate. Since we (as a species) no longer seem to possess the ability or will to do so, it is no great surprise that either truth or ethics ceases to exist within our societies. This is not a political, cultural, religious or other systemic problem. It is a global one - it is human failure.

This article in 'The Federalist' is as senseless as the one written by 'Time Magazine'. In fact, they are two different versions of 'subjective truth'. The 'objective' truth is likely as extinct as the dinosaur - and this is why I believe we have come to that point (my comment, you can find it in the comment section): ________________________________________ The truth is independent of what the media (or anyone else) says - unless one is a mindless bovine that expects to be spoon-fed all their thoughts, ideas and information...including those things which are critical. Under such illogical conditions, 'fake news' is often embraced as truth. This is what research is for. Whether one stops at the MSM and their self-chosen 'social posturing group' for their research or are far too lazy to do the work necessary to arrive at truth, such as going on a journey to see for themselves, then the fault belongs to nobody but themselves. To go even further, truth is wholly immaterial to those who are biased, bigoted and/or suffer from cognitive dissonance. In such cases (and they are myriad), all the research in the world will not help them. They have already made up their subjective minds. Regardless, we will always arrive at the objective truth - which is that people are very quick to blame others and far too unlikely to accept responsibility for their own lack of diligence and/or comprehension. Mud-slinging (or opinion slinging) serves no purpose with regard to establishing truth. The same is true with respect to ethics. For truth and ethics to be established, there is only dignified, patient, tolerant and responsible debate. Since we (as a species) no longer seem to possess the ability or will to do so, it is no great surprise that either truth or ethics ceases to exist within our societies. This is not a political, cultural, religious or other systemic problem. It is a global one - it is human failure. - The primary question here is not really whether truth is dead—but why the question only arises when someone challenges the elite’s particular control of it.