In the (emerging) kingdom of liars, the truth stays a victim

When I first heard the expression “post-truth” – it must have been only a few years ago, though I really cannot say—I was taken aback. “Post-truth” comes with a flavour that suggests that we have somehow moved out of the space where truth existed and was important, counted for something, but that era has gone.

It did not really make sense. Post-war I can handle any time, because a war is an event that takes place for a time, and ends. So when one talks of the post-war period after 1945 one is talking about a definite period that our elders actually lived and some fought in.