… For too long, we have languished under the erroneous impression that “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” This was depressing. Having to share facts with other people meant that, sometimes, your opinion was not as good as theirs. Sometimes, their opinions would be based on lots of facts, and your opinions would be based on no facts, and then they would be right, and you would be wrong. …
Imagine being able to say anything — literally anything! — and for it to be, automatically, true! Well, not true. But just as true as anything believed by anyone else! CONT.
Alexandra Petri, Washington Post