The liberal technocrats who complain that truth is being devalued and the determined believers who gibber that it still needs to be uncovered both have their legs broken in the same trap. They're stuck in a world built by bad literary criticism and the grammtological magicians of the CIA. They're stuck in the abyss under words, the land of secret incomprehension.

Our era is not post-truth. It's nowhere near there yet. We're pre-meaning, and we've been there for a very long time.