"I have a right to believe what I want." She wasn't concerned about the
TRUTH of what she believed and saw it as a matter of personal freedom.
I encounter this kind of attitude all the time. I was chatting with a neighbour one day about the weather (as you do) and I lightly said that thought it was going to rain. (I love rain). She got quite angry and said "don't be so negative".
I had various therapists say to me over the years - make up your own fantasies about the world because it really doesn't matter one way or the other. I was horrified.
We are in a Post-Truth world where people deny the Holocaust ever happened; even that the Srebrenica Massacre people say was the figment of our collective imagination, and never happened, even though it happened, in full public view in 1995. It's crazy to try and delete things from history that happened 300 years ago. To be trying this with mass media events from 30 years ago, and for this move to get a political foothold is terrifying.
But then a president like Trump leads by saying "I didn't say that" when he had a live audience of two billion people watching him when he said it. You've got US senators saying "I didn't encourage them to storm the Capital" when you have Tweets from them saying "go and storm the Capital".
Without conscientiousness and integrity, "truth" and "reality" becomes just so much plasticine.
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This is all a bit of a stretch from "this is the best way to plant a birch tree", but the point stands. Social media is one of the biggest ways people get their news and form their opinions. People see 'social influencers' and presenters as their friends (the nation mourns when Nigel dies). What counts as 'truth' or 'fact', and where they are sourced, are important questions and this landscape is changing very fast.
" Monty celebrates the joy that the gardening year brings with a selection of brand new stories, and the team get into the Christmas spirit.
At Longmeadow, Monty creates a winter interest container filled with seasonal favourites. Rachel de Thame is joined by florist Arthur Parkinson as they spend a festive day making Christmas decorations with plant material sourced from the garden. Carol Klein meets comedian Joe Lycett at his home in Birmingham and talks to him about his new-found love of gardening. And Adam Frost looks at the ground cover plants which are the perfect backdrop to the border at this time of year.
Advolly Richmond heads to Cumbria and uncovers the fascinating history behind the topiary gardens at Levens Hall, while Sue Kent digs out her Christmas jumper and prepares for the big day as she creates some festive gardening gifts.
We visit a nursery in Yorkshire who specialise in growing one of the most popular house plants at Christmas – the poinsettia - and we also find out what viewers have been getting up to in their gardens. "
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I encounter this kind of attitude all the time. I was chatting with a neighbour one day about the weather (as you do) and I lightly said that thought it was going to rain. (I love rain). She got quite angry and said "don't be so negative".
I had various therapists say to me over the years - make up your own fantasies about the world because it really doesn't matter one way or the other. I was horrified.
We are in a Post-Truth world where people deny the Holocaust ever happened; even that the Srebrenica Massacre people say was the figment of our collective imagination, and never happened, even though it happened, in full public view in 1995. It's crazy to try and delete things from history that happened 300 years ago. To be trying this with mass media events from 30 years ago, and for this move to get a political foothold is terrifying.
But then a president like Trump leads by saying "I didn't say that" when he had a live audience of two billion people watching him when he said it. You've got US senators saying "I didn't encourage them to storm the Capital" when you have Tweets from them saying "go and storm the Capital".
Without conscientiousness and integrity, "truth" and "reality" becomes just so much plasticine.
- -
This is all a bit of a stretch from "this is the best way to plant a birch tree", but the point stands. Social media is one of the biggest ways people get their news and form their opinions. People see 'social influencers' and presenters as their friends (the nation mourns when Nigel dies). What counts as 'truth' or 'fact', and where they are sourced, are important questions and this landscape is changing very fast.
" Monty celebrates the joy that the gardening year brings with a selection of brand new stories, and the team get into the Christmas spirit.
At Longmeadow, Monty creates a winter interest container filled with seasonal favourites. Rachel de Thame is joined by florist Arthur Parkinson as they spend a festive day making Christmas decorations with plant material sourced from the garden. Carol Klein meets comedian Joe Lycett at his home in Birmingham and talks to him about his new-found love of gardening. And Adam Frost looks at the ground cover plants which are the perfect backdrop to the border at this time of year.
Advolly Richmond heads to Cumbria and uncovers the fascinating history behind the topiary gardens at Levens Hall, while Sue Kent digs out her Christmas jumper and prepares for the big day as she creates some festive gardening gifts.
We visit a nursery in Yorkshire who specialise in growing one of the most popular house plants at Christmas – the poinsettia - and we also find out what viewers have been getting up to in their gardens. "