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Do we live in a post-truth era?

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There has been a terrorist attack in the center of Stockholm. The day before I walked in that street. The terrorist, with connection to ISIS, wanted to start chaos and disharmony in our society. But he was also unemployed and stayed here without permission. In the last time he mostly "smoked and slept", according to himself. So probably he was depressed and probably angry because of the decision about expulsion  from  Sweden. So the attack was just partly motivated by religion, and just by a small part or Islam,  Fundamental Islamism. Two Swedish Muslims arranged a peace meeting just some days later - and so many came. If we had a dictatorship here, the dictator probably had used the  opportunity to accuse the whole Islamic society for the attack. Our government wont do that. But Timothy Snyder warns in his book "On Tyranny" about this scenario. Because it has happened before. Here is his message in a minimal package: Yuval Harari doesn