Ravi Zacharias — A Post Mortem On A Post-Truth Culture
You see, truth is primarily a property of propositions where words present reality as it really is. Even manipulators of the truth know that truth as an objective assertion is assumed when one is the victim of a lie. It is only subjective when one has victimized others in the process and needs a fabrication.
Once we remove God and decide instead to play God, truth gives way to fiction. It used to be said, If a Cretan tells you all Cretans are liars, can you believe him? Now we have to ask ourselves if we can believe it when a post-truth culture tells us it is a post-truth culture.
But here is the post-mortem. Really, post-truth as a phenomenon is not new. If indeed “post-truth” is the new word of the year in our postmodern lexicon, we might well say that it all depends on what “is” means.
Just as postmodern is neither post nor modern but existed in the first conversation at creation’s dawn—“Has God spoken?”—so also post-truth is actually rebellion right from the beginning. That was the mother of all questions in search of anarchy. “Has God given us His word?” The answer to that question spelled life or death.