In Post-truth Era Who is Right or Left Standing?
Your truth, my truth, becoming our truth, impossible on LinkedIn? Do I see a possibility of impossible on Substack?
I don’t Tweet, so I did miss out on “the latest round of) media Twitter’s brouhaha over Substack.” I wonder if my interest in Substack is to start my own “subscription-based, bespoke punditry shop.” Perhaps unconsciously, but not consciously. I connected to Substack to maintain a link with some in my network, Hedley Rees, Laura Kragie, Robert W Malone, and others that LinkedIn canceled and de-platformed.
I am still walking a tightrope on LinkedIn and writing a newsletter SMART Shepherding Practices. The latest edition was titled “At the end of an "Information War," who is Right or Left standing?”
Until now, I did not write on the “Speaking truth to power in the post-truth world” page I created on Substack. Because your truth, my truth, becoming our truth in the post-truth era seems impossible.
“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” ― Augustine of Hippo.
Although adult lions have no natural predators, it is clear that many die violent death when too young or too old; Hyenas in a group are extremely clever killers. So then, am I discounting the adage such as “truth is like a lion” that Robert Malone often utilizes in his contributions? Not discounting, considering all possibilities.
For decades we have been in the post-truth era but settled a modernistic mindset unconscious of a yearning within for redemption and renewal in a sterile and spiritually empty landscape. Minding this gap seems to be an initial condition in need for exploration to learn how to speak truth to power in the post-truth era. Afterall, chaos is a system, unpredictable beyond mean, as it exhibits extreme sensitivity to initial conditions. Perhaps there is a Butterly effect waiting to generate in the lateralization of language, right to left and back to right to create a whole, in us being holistic.
"Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language."
“A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't care; wisdom does.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh.