Truth behind post-truth politics.

March of renaissance and rationalism came with the number of things attached to and one of them is very high importance attached to logic, rationality. Thus each and every act, thought was tested on the parameters of logic. Any kind of irrational activity or behaviour was considered as useless and a sign of lesser human being.

Thus, as a result, emotions were relegated to the subsidiary position. Expression of emotions publicly was considered as an act of foolishness. Thus rationality and emotions were portrayed as antithetical to each other and rationality was given important position in it. Thus everyone was expected to vote rationally, everyone was expected to think before acting. To add to this, the capitalism and market economy fueled this idea and declared that human being is rational. Thus the homo sapiens were expected to be the homo economicus.    

But this was essentially an intellectual exercise in which the selective elites decided and declared the importance of rationality. And as a result of which, the important role of emotions in the lives of common people was neglected. This unleashed the wave of resentment amongst the common man. This was essentially a cross-country phenomenon. The emotions, which are essentially the anchors of lives of common people were treated as secondary and this was considered as derogatory by society at large. And here I want to propose that, the ongoing post-truth politics is essentially the assertion by common people for "bringing the emotions back in". 

Thus public discourse today need to be the blend of rationality on one hand and emotions on the other.