But a liter is almost 3 times as much as a gallon , so aren ' t you getting more in this case ? I must be missing somehing . <| sep |> It ' s a phenomenological observation of ideological regress that then becomes intellectual regress into areas devoid of conflicting information . It ' s talk radio becoming a bulwark of unmoderated hearsay . It ' s 24 hour news filling its airtime with opinion . It ' s the internet shoveling fake news and hypotheticals . Except , more than this , it ' s the people that seek them out . It ' s the people that hide from information before making decisions . Even more insidously , it ' s Congress stopping medical research on the effects of pot and guns . It ' s Trump ' s cabinet planning to end NASA climate research . It ' s a smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud . It ' s refuge in ignorance , taking a bold stance on a firmament of bullshit so that you don ' t waver in your commitment . It ' s the propaganda of selfdelusion , and more so the delusion that anything said with enough force is JUST propaganda and all ideological wars are lies pitted against each other in the marketplace of rhetoric instead of sometimes being considered principles developed through observation . At least , that ' s what it ' s supposed to mean , but there ' s a hagiographic element of absolutism in principle in posttruth that sounds better to me as postfact . Hannah Arendt argued that totalitarianism works because people don ' t believe in the world they see , so they are quite receptive to bullshit that satisfies their feelings of the world . It ' s a decent description of how politics works now free Healthcare doesn ' t work except it does but it won ' t because I don ' t want people getting free stuff except for me , for example .