The Malady of Truth and Its Cure: The House of Fame and the Conditions of Post-Truth
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Since post-truth came upon us as a serious social problem with Donald Trump’s election as US president, there has been a critical endeavor to understand the posttruth conditions out of which the Trump phenomenon emerged. While many critics point to conditions possible only in our age, this paper claims that these conditions are not specific to a certain period of time but are an underlying condition of human nature across history. Through Chaucer’s House of Fame (and The Canterbury Tales), we can discern conditions comparable to our own, such as cognitive dissonance, social conformity, and confirmation bias. Post-truth is not simply a disease of our time, but a malady that we, human beings, always suffer.
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Since post-truth came upon us as a serious social problem with Donald Trump’s election as US president, there has been a critical endeavor to understand the posttruth conditions out of which the Trump phenomenon emerged. While many critics point to conditions possible only in our age, this paper claims that these conditions are not specific to a certain period of time but are an underlying condition of human nature across history. Through Chaucer’s House of Fame (and The Canterbury Tales), we can discern conditions comparable to our own, such as cognitive dissonance, social conformity, and confirmation bias. Post-truth is not simply a disease of our time, but a malady that we, human beings, always suffer.
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