In the internet age nothing travels faster than a cliché whose time has come. No speech is now complete without a reference to our “post-truth” times — as if, until only yesterday, the pure water of truth flowed unceasingly from the lips of politicians and newscasters. Not to mention Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin and the totalitarian big lies dissected by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and George Orwell.
在互联网时代,没有什么比出现得正是时候的陈词滥调传播得更快了。现在,但凡演讲必要提及我们所处的“后真理”时代——说的好像直到昨天为止,纯净的真理之水一直在政客和新闻主播唇边无尽流淌似的。更不必说约瑟夫•戈培尔(Joseph Goebbels)、约瑟夫•斯大林(Joseph Stalin),以及亚历山大•索尔仁尼琴(Alexander Solzhenitsyn)和乔治•奥威尔(George Orwell)曾剖析过的那些极权主义的弥天大谎。
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