the end of facts

When opinions trump facts, where does that put us? To start with, the physical world. If I say it is safe to live right on the ocean, who has the right to deny me my right to do so? When green becomes red and red, green, how do we know how to behave or what to believe.

We have been on a dangerous course for some time. When facts don’t matter, we can make up our own virtual world. There are now plenty of conspiracy theorists lining their pockets with money disseminating any wild idea they can come up with. You only have to look at the disaster response and recovery in North Carolina. People getting bad information about who, what, how and when to apply for disaster aid that they are entitled to. Yes, there is a place for interpretation, such as the “glass half-full and glass half-empty” but if you have a ruler, you could measure the liquid and get perhaps an absolute answer to that question.

Today in the New York Times there is this article, Meta to End Fact-Checking Program I don’t know how it was done in the past since I’m not a big Facebook participant but trusting people to “fact check” on another in a world of “opinions” seems to be self-destructive to anyone who endeavors to do so.

I watched much of a President Trump Elect news conference today. The Washington Post in his first presidency tried to fact check everything he said. As I listened to it, I believe that Meta was right to end fact checking. It is apparently impossible to do.

I just want to end this blog post by saying that “I am the most intelligent, best looking, fastest, strongest, funniest, fittest, wealthiest, emergency manager anywhere in the world.”  I state that as a fact, not an opinion!