{"id":35458,"date":"2018-04-22T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35458"},"modified":"2018-04-01T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:31:03","slug":"qotd-chronic-truth-aversion-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/22\/qotd-chronic-truth-aversion-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Chronic Truth Aversion Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When little children can\u2019t understand things, they often lash out and throw tantrums.<\/p>\n<p>Workplace and safety considerations prevent adults stamping their feet and hurling themselves onto the playground, so they have to content themselves with spewing invective all over the virtual playground of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>They take aim at whoever confounded them, claim to be offended and engage in a cathartic process of name-calling and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>This therapeutic process is effect\u00adive, but flawed.<\/p>\n<p>By enabling tantrum-throwers to re-establish their feelings of moral superiority they can walk away purged, but it doesn\u2019t get to the root of their problem: Chronic Truth Aversion Disorder.<\/p>\n<p>The CTAD epidemic that is raging unchecked through Australia\u2019s social media population is rendering impossible any intellig\u00adent debate on serious social issues, such as the rampant violence, abuse and neglect of children in remote indigenous communities.<\/p>\n<p>The reactions of people in an advanced stage of the condition to anything that so much as hints at the truth, while utterly irrational, are also so hostile that anyone \u00adinclined to speak the truth understandably becomes afraid to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Leak, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/opinion\/another-twitter-feed-tantrum-about-my-cartoons\/news-story\/e4a2db48aa81424c6daf54a4497330e6\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Bill Leak cartoon: what are you tweeting about?&#8221;, <em>The Australian<\/em><\/a>, 2016-08-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When little children can\u2019t understand things, they often lash out and throw tantrums. Workplace and safety considerations prevent adults stamping their feet and hurling themselves onto the playground, so they have to content themselves with spewing invective all over the virtual playground of Twitter. They take aim at whoever confounded them, claim to be offended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[331,28,41,15],"tags":[438,238,593,310],"class_list":["post-35458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-media","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-firstnations","tag-offensensitivity","tag-socialmedia","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35459,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35458\/revisions\/35459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}