Sazetak

Abstract

This paper presents the thesis of the modern age as an end of the truth era. The neologism “post-truth“ represents not only a global entry into a new era of total populism, but it also summarizes the general experience that truth is not only endangered, but that its time has passed. We live in a “post- truth epoch in which facts have no weight. This paper identifies three key processes that have contributed to the end of the truth: postmodernism as the dominant intellectual paradigm in Western universities, the establishment of spectacle as a political medium, and the emergence of social networks that enabled recipients to take part in content creation. In such a socio-cultural environment, religion, both as a political religion and as an esoteric-occult religiosity and, finally, as a daily practice, becomes an area of manipulative techniues, political games and ideological contradictions. Religion dissolves, lose substance, identity.

Keywords: lie, facts, post-truth, postmodernism, spectacle, populism, social networks