From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg)

Candice, I think she believes in the idea that you believe in what is useful to you. Truth is not what matters, particularly on the right, which is a really strange thing to see. They've embraced this kind of postmodern conception of truth, which is something that's constructed by power. And I think we've all been fed this idea for so long now that truth is a construct. My warning about this kind of thing, which I wrote in my book was other people are going to notice.

They're going to see that this is an effective strategy for winning ideological wars and the other side is going to do the same thing. And lo and behold, they did. COVID became this turning point for people and the way that they think about information, the way they saw the media. And the backlash that we're seeing now, it it's almost like the inflation that came after the stimulus, the multiple rounds of you know, trillion dollar stimulus where we now have huge levels of inflation.

We're kind of seeing the same thing in in the information space where the inflation is distrust in anything, not just the media, and distrust in any kind of established fact, especially having something to do with science and politics and what we get, the inflationary effect is basically conspiracy theory. All right everybody, it's Michael Shermer. It's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. My guest today, a returning champion, Ashley Rinsberg. He was here a couple years ago for his book that I'll talk about in just a moment.

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