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by theoh 9y ago
The origin is this book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Construction_of_Reality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Construction_of_R...
It's probably fair to say that PKD would have found ideas like "consensus reality" (Charles Tart) or "reality tunnels" (Timothy Leary) to be, at least, relevant to his work.
I found this article helpful in sketching the developments that you seem to be objecting to: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-ame...
- westoncb 9y agoYep, my understanding is also that Berger and Luckmann is the source of the phrase. That looks like an interesting article—I'll check it out. Here's another (shorter) one that deals with the issue: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/11/post-truth-spawned-by-liberal-left-long-ago-brexit-trump/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/11/post-truth-spawn... (There's a very brief summary in the section "The truth about post-truth")