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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (313834)12/20/2024 2:19:24 PM
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It was the reality of what people believed that was changed. Changed by a propaganda machine.

I referred in my post to "what people believe" as "culture." You can choose a different word but I would dispute that reality is that word. What people believe is not necessarily real, by definition.

We do seem to be in an incipient paradigm shift, substituting one set of beliefs, values and their accompanying norms for another. Here I'm just making an academic comment on framing it.

I recently mentioned an audio book I was using to fall asleep called "Sapiens." In it the author describes the stages of human development from Homo to Homo Sapiens. The Sapiens shift is cognitive. Animals have "words" for things. Critically, humans developed the ability to grok and name what he called myths and which I re-labeled ideas because "myths" carries a connotation of bogus. There is an area of land we call America that is real. The notion of a there being a country sitting on that land is an idea, one that has a working consensus that makes it reality for all practical purposes but isn't quite the same The consensus can change; the land, not so much, certainly not via thinking about it differently.
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