According to many, we are living in the height of the ‘Fake News’ Era. We turn on the TV for 5 minutes, flip through five or six news stations, and get drastically different coverage, information and ‘facts’. Is each of these news stations blatantly reporting false information? Maybe they don’t know what the truth is? Or, maybe they think what they report is the only truth out there. Whatever the case may be, one thing is clear- news stations, journalists and politicians alike never come to an agreed upon truth…about anything. But is ‘Fake News’ really something new- or has it been around for centuries? Certainly, today's political climate is chaotic, complicated and often futile in terms of being productive. The lack of a consistent agreed
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You have two opposing forces- in this case, those who are enlightened, and those who are not who do not want to come to an agreement with one another because they both think that they are right. So, who wins? Well, Kant might say that people who are enlightened should take a step back from the actual truth when they realize it, and think of the best way to let those who are unenlightened know that they are living a lie. Kant does not want any conflict and therefore would probably like the enlightened class to keep any significant truths to themselves. Plato also pondered the question of the ‘truth’. In The Allegory of the Cave, a group of prisoners has been confined since birth, with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained facing a wall, unable to turn their heads while a fire projects shadows in front of them of people who occasionally pass by. The prisoners give names to these showdown illusions, and believe them to be real …show more content…
People who are opposed to President Trump might say that Trump is lying about something, because they don’t want to hear the truth he is saying, rather they look from a different perspective to invalidate what the President says. For example, many people think that illegal immigration shouldn’t be punished, and it is immoral and illegal. Then there are others, who see illegal immigration as a costly crime for the entire nation. Who is telling the truth? Well if you asked both kinds of people they both would have the same answer- they are telling the truth. It all depends on their perspective, and if you don’t see the other person’s perspective you can say that they are ‘fake news’ because you are unable to come up with a common agreement about whatever it may
You have two opposing forces- in this case, those who are enlightened, and those who are not who do not want to come to an agreement with one another because they both think that they are right. So, who wins? Well, Kant might say that people who are enlightened should take a step back from the actual truth when they realize it, and think of the best way to let those who are unenlightened know that they are living a lie. Kant does not want any conflict and therefore would probably like the enlightened class to keep any significant truths to themselves. Plato also pondered the question of the ‘truth’. In The Allegory of the Cave, a group of prisoners has been confined since birth, with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained facing a wall, unable to turn their heads while a fire projects shadows in front of them of people who occasionally pass by. The prisoners give names to these showdown illusions, and believe them to be real …show more content…
People who are opposed to President Trump might say that Trump is lying about something, because they don’t want to hear the truth he is saying, rather they look from a different perspective to invalidate what the President says. For example, many people think that illegal immigration shouldn’t be punished, and it is immoral and illegal. Then there are others, who see illegal immigration as a costly crime for the entire nation. Who is telling the truth? Well if you asked both kinds of people they both would have the same answer- they are telling the truth. It all depends on their perspective, and if you don’t see the other person’s perspective you can say that they are ‘fake news’ because you are unable to come up with a common agreement about whatever it may