Waking up to the post-truth era | Priyesh Perera | TEDxGeorgiaTechSalon

Priyesh will talk about the post-truth era we live in today and how trends in his hometown in Sri Lanka apply to the political environment of the United States.

Priyesh is a junior year Marketing major at Tech's Scheller College of Business, on exchange from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. Born and raised in the humble little island of Sri Lanka, Priyesh’s interest in researching the fields of political rhetoric and “post-truth” springs from the nature of politics in Sri Lanka, as well as the disastrous civil war that lasted the better part of thirty years.

[wentz]

Very true. We believe what we want, not what is always factual.

[myspacetimesaucegoog]

Someone wanting to be a politician should automatically disqualify that person from ever being one. meaning they will tend to place politics above truth. good talk yong man.

[stopfoolingpeople]

Thanks Priyesh! You made my work a lot easy! And your presentation is really clean and seamless. Learned a lot from you as a PhD student. You are a gem! Using your speech to make my theoretical framework for a paper. Best my friend!