My generation, born in the 80s, received an education based on a Newtonian-Cartesian worldview: everything was clear, logical, predictable, like a giant clockwork mechanism. Analytical thinking was a value in itself. Experience gave us space in which we learned to search for and find connections, causes and effects. The mathematics I was taught in school stopped roughly at the level of five hundred years ago. Since I studied a humanities profession, the teaching of Philosophy – as a general discipline – was limited to its history from ancient times up to roughly the era of Nietzsche, while specialized disciplines, such as the history of political and legal doctrines, stopped at the collapse of Communism and the inevitable liberal view of the future. Perhaps mathematicians and physicists are taught differently, but when talking to my contemporaries and reading posts on this forum, I notice that society’s idea of quantum mechanics or relativity is more like “oh, just another more precise formula” rather than “guys, actually reality is arranged radically differently.”
The picture of the world that is still being taught today (I can see this from my children’s textbooks) looks roughly like this:

1. A problem has one correct answer.
2. Facts are objective.
3. The world is linear, comprehensible and obeys rules.

But the world we live in keeps showing us that something is wrong. Let me give some examples from my own experience.

1. You’re used to effort being roughly equal to result. You try twice as hard = you get twice as much. In reality, five randomly successful videos can catapult you to a billion views, while ten years of honest work in a corporation can end with you being replaced by an AI trained on your own reports.
2. We were taught: facts are sacred. They can be verified. Then you open the internet and see that for a huge part of people a “fact” is whatever their feed served them with the right emotion. Algorithms shape beliefs faster than any textbook.
3. We expect cause to precede effect. But try to explain the “root cause” of any viral trend. First something suddenly takes off, then people start copying it, then an entire culture is built around it – and only in the end do they come up with an “explanation” retroactively.
4. We were taught that the observer tries not to influence the experiment. Today every like is an intervention. With your attention alone you literally shift reality. Algorithms build your tomorrow’s world from whatever you looked at for more than three seconds today. This is no longer an echo chamber – it’s a current you can hardly swim out of.
5. You find yourself in a world where you seemingly control nothing. The causes you yourself generate are insufficient for any large-scale effects. At the same time, success gurus brainwash you with “think correctly,” “visualize the object of desire,” “the universe will provide.”
6. You think humanity has long known what is science and what isn’t. Yet people from your closest circle keep telling you about your numerological number, zodiac sign and retrograde Mercury. They firmly know which decision to make because the stars told them so.

This story is not about me deciding to shout “THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD” or accusing everyone of incompetence. I simply wanted to share my observations about how people like us adapt to all this. Based on what I’ve seen, I have identified the following groups:

1. Retreat into denial and traditionalism: “let’s go back to the roots, everything was clear there.”
2. Try to stretch the old picture of the world onto the new reality. They argue and try to prove there is one single cause for everything.
3. Break down: anxiety, depression, apathy. And seem to remain in that state forever.
4. Go with the flow, no longer trying to build anything; this very flow doesn’t even leave time to think about anything. They surf the waves of uncertainty and stop looking for the “true cause” of everything.
5. Contemplate and write long forum posts or books like “The Burnout Society.”
6. Those who instead of the old Newtonian world built a new "solid" world of data, metric and "scientifically proven". They believe neither in God nor in progress, but in tests, randomized studies, effective altruism, AI safety, longevity studies.
8. Those who are looking for an explanation in numerology, astrology, or tarot.
9. Those who are developing their own ontology
10. Maybe someone else I missed.

For generations, born in the 2000s, a possible solution to the contradictions presented by me has already appeared by itself. They are already going through this gap. For them, reality has always been fluid, multiple, controlled attention. They wonder why seniors cling to "facts" and "logic" when it's obvious that the world works differently.

That's why I don't see a way out in order to start teaching post-truth en masse. No matter how hard it is, the average person needs a solid support. If you say to him: "There is no truth, everything depends on your point of view," he will not become a philosopher. He will lose his mind or become a cynical beast. A terrible fork is obtained:

• We dont leave the old education: We release people with a "solid" consciousness into a "liquid" world. They are looking for stability, which is not there. They break down, facing the chaos of society and the market. They feel cheated.
• We are introducing a "new post-truth": We are destroying ontological security. We break the soil from under our feet, or spread wings. This is a direct path to mass psychosis.

It may very well be that the old education is the only thing that keeps today's world from falling apart. In any case, as I said above, it is possible that the world has already found a solution, meanwhile people of the "old school" will gradually leave as always. Perhaps this post is just an attempt to find the depth of old fashioned modernity on a flat screen.

Interesting your opinion on this topic.