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Its beensaidmanytimesthat we are living in a post-truth world.
The commentariat which proposes this view tends to think theres no going back.
That this is simply the way things are now.
Perhaps its whiplash from the past decades turbulence, engendered largely by the internet and social media.
Or perhaps its because the status quo of consolidation and control stands to benefit the already powerful.
Kanye West is one of the most powerful celebrities on the planet.
In the lead-up to his recordYethis summer, the 41-year-old rapper shared a bevy of questionable links on Twitter.
It appeared as though Kanye had stumbled onto 4chan and was delivering dispatches from /pol.
He vowed to be a free thinker, which meant subscribing exclusively to pseudo-philosophy that hed read online.
Listen to the kids, bro!
The internet, in this view, has made all of those old -isms obsolete.
Never mind the fact that the Supreme-drenched white kid likely attends aneffectively segregated high school.The internet has changed things!
Slavery is a topic that Kanye seems particularly fascinated by of late.
But it hasnt stopped West and his ilk from using it as a means of ignoring material reality.
