Post -truth this is a new word of the year -2016, According to,oxford dictionary.we only know the word "Truth". There may be a 'half-truth' or 'no- truth'. but post-truth is something else.
That is our traditional thought that whatever we speak it should be only Truth, To speak truth it is considered as a good habit of us ; To speak against truth it is called falsehood or a bad thing. .
In our religion many stories about God and Goddesses. we can say it is 'myth' ; which may be a truth or not but though the many years it conditioning our mind by its contents.
By myth we forced to believe in it, then we have prejudice with it and we emotionally attached with it. That is very far from fact.by the time our thinking changed ; we thought that is not truth in it: anyhow we convinced by them there is no fact at all.
Post - truth means truth change with time , in past it was related with situation so it was truth but nowadays we can said that it is myth. So people will not accept it easily because they have emotions with it.
Nowadays this word associated with Donald Trump because of his post truth about assurance of work towards people.same thing with "modi" about ' man ki bat '.
" Fernando pessoa " said that ," if you have the truth,keep it yourselves.".
In short, post -truth related with critical thinking about any subject.
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