Does Impeachment Matter?
Tl;dr: That’s for you to decide
The past four (god, is it four?) years in popular media have been defined by a tension between what is truth and what is untruth. It’s been written more than once (in fact, ad nauseam) that we live in a “post-truth” era. This has implications all its own (perhaps, most notably, as a reflection of how we process information in the age of digital media). But truth, objectivity, quantitative scientific objectivism, and previously ubiquitous definitions of morality, self, common mores, and modal law aside, the only “truth” that matters now- whether it ought to be that way or not- is the one we accept as a culture- the one that leaves an imprint on our collective psyche, the one that casts its framework in our practice, the fabric of our culture, and the basic tenants of our governing policy that seek to sustain the once so-cosmic norms we knew to be the rafters that craft our world.
If these metaphors strike you as pretentious, you’re not wrong. It’s almost impossible to broadly reflect upon the seismic shift in information and discourse without invoking some kind of long-tired soliloquy of stereotype, static stigma, and sophoristically stretched-out-thin strapped-straw stigmata in an imitation of an imitation of what we used to be. It is impossible to say just what I mean.
