How society survives the world after the Truth is set on fire

We are supposed to live in a post-truth world — I have said so myself, and more than once.

What does that mean?

Basically, that trust in our interpreters of truth — the elites, the mediating class, whatever one chooses to call them — has evaporated.

We haven’t believed our presidents for at least a generation.

We haven’t believed the news media and other organs of information since the advent of the web.

At some point during the COVID-19 pandemic, we stopped believing our institutions of science.