I wonder if the era of the belief in ‘speaking truth to power’ is drawing to a close. Pilger was very much in…

I wonder if the era of the belief in ‘speaking truth to power’ is drawing to a close. Pilger was very much in that tradition. A problematic belief that power and truth are two separate domains. We’ve seen this with Covid. /1 https://t.co/DLIl2rKyBL

Every day lots of people speak the truth of Covid, and climate change for that matter. It makes little difference. ‘Power’ is not some separate arena we petition for change. Nobody is listening. The power to change the world isn’t the power of revealing truths. /2

It’s the power of building the world the truths embody. Of persuading, of making the reality you’d prefer ‘go viral’. Bad people are winning because they make their lunatic, toxic beliefs desirable to people who are actually harmed by them. Analytical anger is no antidote. /end