Why do people buy into stories that are clearly lies? Hannah Arendt can help us understand.
- People who don't believe facts or news that disagree with their worldviews can be impossible to deal with, and boy there are a lot of them lately.
- Hannah Arendt tells us this isn't all new; it happened before around 1936.
- It isn't easy to convince a person who has given up on facts that they really should face reality again, but it can be done.
A strange phenomenon has infected global politics. Fact-checking, once seen as a dull but effective way to figure out what is true and what is false, is now an extremely contentious business that often utterly fails to convince people that their views are based on falsehoods.
Most of us who care about being accurate and seeking truth from facts are, justly, shocked by this. How can it be that entire political movements are based around falsehoods and eagerly supported by people who claim all attempts at fact-checking are "fake news"?
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