How America Lost Its Mind
The nation’s current post-truth moment is the ultimate expression of mindsets that have made America exceptional throughout its history.
“You are entitled to your own opinion,
but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“We risk being the first people in history to have been
able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive,
so ‘realistic’ that they can live in them.”
able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive,
so ‘realistic’ that they can live in them.”
— Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to
Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
When did America become untethered from reality?
