Hello and welcome to Overthink.
The podcast where two philosophers help you sift the truth from the bullshit.
I'm Dr. David Peña-Guzman.
And I'm Dr. Ellie Anderson.
We are living in a post-truth era.
Politicians can seemingly say anything and get away with it these days.
We have all sorts of misinformation being spouted by randos online.
I was just hearing on NPR recently about how much women's health information is being or women's health misinformation is being spread on TikTok.
All kinds of myths about birth control and food, really scary stuff on social media.
Right.
Like there's a ton of this.
YouTube and podcasts, our métier, are also absolutely not innocent.
Podcasting arguably helped inaugurate our current political situation, our current administration,
where post-truth is, you know, really off to the races.
And the line between fact and fiction, I would say,
hasn't so much blurred as been rendered moot, at least according to theorists of the post-truth era.
I think you're right that it has been rendered moot.
And there is no shortage of examples of what post-truth looks like.
It goes all the way from truly unhinged conspiracy theories that violate even the most basic laws of common sense,
all the way to people in positions of power, especially politicians.