Do we live in a Post-Truth society?
Leaving Eden Podcast
Leaving Eden LLC
4.5 • 744 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sadie takes us through two different theories of truth, and what it means for a statement to be true or not true. In using these two theories of truth, we discuss how anti-trans crusaders like Matt Walsh or Christian fundamentalist biblical literalists use bait-and-switch tactics to distort what their followers perceive as the truth. These bad faith arguments can be avoided by avoiding circular logic traps.
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Patreon.Com/LeavingEdenPodcast is where the bonus content is!
01:30 - Is a hot dog a sandwich?
01:50 - We support trans people
02:05 - What is a post-truth society?
02:20 - Authoritarian populists like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
03:00 - Postmodernism
03:44 - The Philosophical Definition
04:39 - What is a woman?
05:00 - Caitlyn Jenner
05:30 - The correspondence theory of truth
06:45 - The coherence theory of truth
08:30 - Thank you to our wonderful patrons!
10:00 - Truth conforms to the entire ecosystem of other things that are true
10:10 - What is a sandwich?
10:54 - Matt Walsh argues in bad faith
12:45 - Bioessentialist transphobia does not hold up to scrutiny
13:22 - The King James Bible
15:15 - Hateful comments on social media
16:10 - The Bible is true because the bible says that the bible is true
16:20 - Cult control tactics and brainwashing
19:30 - Atheism vs. Religion debate
20:00 - Is personal experience evidence?
20:55 - Realism and Anti-Realism
22:22 - anti-realism
23:58 - Big questions
24:38 - Color theory
25:18 - Berlin and Kay's theory of Basic Color Terms
26:58 - WHAT COLOR IS SADIE'S HAIR?
28:27 - Sadie is the proof
30:03 - John Calvin profile pic
30:53 - Sadie once had a man
31:08 - Capitalism is the root of all christian misogyny (not actually)
33:38 - What is proof?
36:04 - Are we living in a simulation?
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| 0:00.0 | No rolling river of time. |
| 0:08.0 | You've healed me in too many days. |
| 0:15.0 | No regrets, no confusion. |
| 0:18.0 | There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful I've decided to change my ways |
| 0:29.1 | welcome in to the leaving Eden podcast welcome welcome welcome in we are here at |
| 0:34.7 | sadie carpenter she is your host my name's gobi Sad, do we live in a post-truth society? Yes, but not the way the transphobes think. I'm excited to hear about what you have to say about that. But before we do, if you are not subscribed to our Patreon, what are you doing, man? If you go over there, you get the episodes early. They come out. They have bonus content. |
| 0:54.3 | You head over to patreon.com slash leaving Eden podcast. It's a great place. A couple of weeks ago, |
| 0:59.9 | we came out with an episode about Sadie's former pastor who did some bad things, who did some bad |
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| 1:24.3 | Everything that we've ever said, even some stuff that maybe we shouldn't have said. |
| 1:28.8 | That's very true. |
| 1:33.5 | So today we're going to talk about our hot dog sandwiches. I've never really had a strong opinion on this. I felt like this was always something that was debated on the internet, but I never. |
| 1:38.1 | Yeah, I feel like I can respect both sides. I don't think that a definition of a sandwich is really that important |
| 1:45.3 | to my daily life. But to some people it is. And some people will also spend a lot of time and |
| 1:49.9 | energy trying to devalue the experiences and literal lives of trans people, gay people, |
| 1:58.3 | anybody who doesn't look and act exactly the way that they do. |
| 2:01.6 | Today we're going to be talking about that. Have you heard people say that you're, that we live in a post-truth society? Are you familiar with the term? Absolutely. Yeah, I've heard of it. Would you explain it? Because I've heard it in a couple of different contexts. Yeah. Well, can you give me like, what is your of, like, what do people mean when they say that? |
| 2:18.0 | Maybe not necessarily the exact definition. |
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