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Of Enrica Perucchietti

Source: Italicum
Interview with Enrica Perucchietti, author of the book “Fake News”, Arianna Publishing 2018, edited by Luigi Tedeschi

1. According to the thoughts of Walter Lippmann, our perception of reality is conditioned by images, concepts, moral values ​​not directly acquired, but transmitted to us by others. Therefore, the narration of facts is necessarily subjective, a representation of reality formed through stereotypes, assumed as interpretative canons of reality itself. In the fluidity of today's telematic communication, therefore, new stereotypes replace old forms of manipulation of reality. It is therefore necessary to conclude that the perception of reality is always mediated by the uninterrupted succession of cultural stereotypes over time, every truth arises from selective parameters of interpretation of reality itself. In this case the post-virtual truths of media technology, they do not end up being equated with the metaphysical conceptions of philosophical knowledge and/or with the transcendent truths of religious faiths?

The risk exists. Yet the truth is one, with its infinite nuances, beyond the stereotypes or cultural archetypes that each of us has inherited or been indoctrinated into. I agree with the philosopher Alain De Benoist according to which the intent of post-truth would be to discredit the truth by presenting it as a "great story" which can no longer be believed precisely because everyone has constructed their own subjective truth. It would be the triumph of relativism: everything becomes “relative”, virtual and therefore chaotic. At this point of collective disorientation, Power guarantees the existence of its own truth through the supervisory action of the mainstream media and the laws introduced to guarantee order. That is, we want each of us to be increasingly wary of the news we can find on the web even if it is documented and true and, more generally, of alternative information to make exclusive reference to "certified" news.: we must only rely on what the Party says and has decided for everyone. The others will be conspiracy theorists, webeti and well poisoners. Read More