Reasons Why Post-truth Claims Are Plausible, and Evidence That They Are Not true

Maarten van Doorn
The Understanding Project
20 min readApr 30, 2021

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It’s no coincidence that Walter Lippmann’s seminal book on public opinion starts with Plato’s cave.

Part I.

“The world that we have to deal with is out of reach, out of sight, out of mind. It has to be explored, reported, and imagined. [The media dominate this creation of pictures in our heads, because] they are the principal connection between events in the world and the images in the minds of the public.”

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Maarten van Doorn
The Understanding Project

Essays about why we believe what we do, how societies come to a public understanding about truth, and how we might do better (crazy times)