Now we have designer facts, We can't handle the truth

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Now we have designer facts,

Jack Nicholson was right: We can't handle the truth

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The truth, period.
Once upon a time, we all drew upon a common pool of facts. You might interpret them differently than I, but we could have an honest disagreement because the facts themselves were not in contention.

Now we have designer facts,

facts that aren't facts but that gain currency because somebody wanted to believe them. The thing is, facts that really “are” facts, truth that really “is” true, doesn't always validate your beliefs. Sometimes it challenges and confounds them. That's probably the problem.

Designer facts are easy because they are soothing, because they are predictable, because they never make you think, only react.