{"id":14781,"date":"2020-11-21T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T17:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14781"},"modified":"2020-11-21T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T17:01:18","slug":"maybe-its-not-true-but-it-feels-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14781","title":{"rendered":"Maybe It&#8217;s Not True, but It Feels True"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shelby Steele of the Hoover Institution at Stanford offers a profound concept in his new documentary about what happened in Ferguson, MO, called <em>What Killed Michael Brown?<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/2020\/10\/truth_and_myth_in_ferguson\">It&#8217;s the term \u201cpoetic truth.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;People believe cultural myths, he says, not because they have examined evidence and found it credible but because they align with narratives they\u2019ve already bought into. They\u00a0<em>feel<\/em>\u00a0true,&#8221; Megan Basham writes for World News Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This ideas touches all groups. I would say most of us feel something is true and are willing to defend it before we know the facts. That&#8217;s pretty much how life works. We can&#8217;t research everything. There&#8217;s too much information in general. The most practical solution is for us trust certain sources to tell us the truth, a trust we form largely by feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose that means not only the righteous live by faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelby Steele of the Hoover Institution at Stanford offers a profound concept in his new documentary about what happened in Ferguson, MO, called What Killed Michael Brown? It&#8217;s the term \u201cpoetic truth.\u201d &#8220;People believe cultural myths, he says, not because they have examined evidence and found it credible but because they align with narratives they\u2019ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maybe It&#8217;s Not True, but It Feels True<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[3524,3525,3526],"class_list":["post-14781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","tag-ferguson","tag-shelby-steele","tag-what-killed-michael-brown"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14782,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781\/revisions\/14782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}