It seems that we are now living in the first ever Age of Untruth. This is not about bad people telling lies and hoping to get away with it, or even politicians, such as the SNP lying about export figures, but a state where fibs are considered to be a perfectly acceptable substitute for truth. The king of this new way of doing things is the new American president, who began his tenure by claiming that millions of people had turned up to see him crowned, when photos clearly showed the opposite. He had to protect his ego and we had to empathize.
This is nothing to do with ‘Newspeak’, the dark Orwellian nightmare where people are force fed lies from a cruel dictator. For the liberal Left it’s all about populism which says never mind the facts let’s get on with destroying the ruling elite, i.e. them. The new fibocracy is happily accepted by a gullible public. Porkie pies have always been popular entertainment. The difference now is surely the number of people, after years of free state education, who are unable to distinguish fact from fiction whether it’s conspiracy theories or presidential pique.
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