Post-Truth: Should we be scared?

Post-truth would imply that we are living in a world that truth does not exist, or does it? Or, does it mean that we have advanced to the point that we all should know what is true, what is right and what is wrong.

In the scientific scence we all should know what is true in the physical sense after some observation and furth inquiry. When it comes to the moral sense what is right and what is wrong, and in the end should it really even matter.

After some education and travel many will come to the realization that we humans havemany simmilar needs and wants and that is security, shelter, nutritional requirement and the freedom to react and interact with other human beings. weather it be trading with one another or just a pleseant conversation on just about anything we all have these needs.

Unless one wants to live a life of solitude it can be quite apparent that it is in our nature to be social human beings. solitude is not for everyone, one can become lonely and depressed and books sometimes just do not cut it. Like the pepsi commercial in the 80’s “nothing is better than the real thing.”

As a result, in ones quest to fill the void of loneliness one can try and start a family. But one must no that this is no simple task. One must be completely shure and ready to go after this endeavour. Sometimes careers get in the way and its a shame and balances are needed.

Just imagine a society that would create the ground work for women to have children in their twenties so that they do not have to worry about negative effects on their careers. As a result, social support to all those women who want to have children get support and education in their twenties so that they do no have to worry about estabishing a career before they have children. I think this a good idea….but what does that have to do with post truth.

In the end Post-Truth means that we must create our own truths to maximize social and economic growth amonst all walks of life. To borrow from neo-liberal principles if we have too much we then have too much to lose in case of war.

As a result, trade and dependancy on one another for goods and sevices should have prevented war in places like the Ukraine and Russia. Russia is still using european energy dependancy as a bargining chip as they should. Too me it looks like the USA’s efforts to exit the neo-liberal paradise of globalization has had some after effects and one of them is to once again create a world of two camps. To relase europe of energy dependancy the US wants to sell their oil and gas to europe but that is expensive and only benefits the US and anit-globalization.

I am not sure if this is a good idea but if we are to have competition in a healthy sense it may be a good thing for humanity a yin and yang in all areas of global trade and interaction.

The facts are that globalization has lifted the global population out of poverty at its fastest pace ever in human history. this is a good thing. But to level the playing field, the west had to incur the loss of many manufacutring jobs and loss of the stregth of the middle class for the benefit of all.

So what does this tell us of human nature. It is telling us that indeed we are selfish and want to restore and a level playing feild in global trade and poverty eliminating iniciatives are too high a price to pay for western populations. Is it time to rid ourselves of the scrouges of the nation state and nationalism? I think so, but hopefull we can do this with out a huge global world war.

If you think about the nation state as a house of like minded individuals who share resources and all aspects of life it could be a good thing but for the benefit of all mankind we need to sacrifice this independance and have a true global government one tht looks for all our needs and first then we need regionalism to take form before we can evolve to this state of being.

Just imagine and then inovate policy to the slow transformation. If we held all resources world wide in common whould we have anything to fight about or worry that our supplier will cut off our gas if we do not agree with their internal policies.

I know this is wishful thinking but just imagine a world like that, truly we then would have less to fight about. and that maybe the truth of post truth. It doesn’t matter as long as we all live a good life.

Economist our their do the calculations and make this happen.