Like Beauty, Truth depends on the eye of the beholder.

"We are told that we are living in a new and frightening era of post-truth," wrote Yuval Noah Harari. "Ever since the Stone Age, self-reinforcing myths have served to unite human collectives." "We are the only mammals that can cooperate with numerous strangers because only we can invent fictional stories, spread them around and convince millions of others to believe in them. Just try cramming 50,000 chimps into Yankee Stadium, Wall Street or the Vatican. Yet if you put 50,000 humans in Yankee Stadium, Wall Street or the Vatican, you will get extremely sophisticated networks of cooperation, provided all these humans happen to believe in the same stories about baseball, stock markets or Christianity." Truth can have many shades, depending on who you are, explains Devdutt Pattanaik, a mythologist. Recently, Mike Pompeo, Chief of the CIA called WikiLeaks a "hostile intelligence service" and said that Julian Assange is a "fraud" and "coward". Why such strong language? Because WikiLeaks revealed how the CIA is able to hack into ordinary appliances, such as smart television sets and smartphones, to spy on people all over the world. Their malware makes it seem as though Russians are doing the hacking. So it could have been the CIA hacking into Democratic Party emails that cost Hillary Clinton the election. The US also hacked into the Swift global banking system. Naturally, Assange feels he is thoroughly justified because,"...the CIA is only in the business of collecting information, kidnapping people, and assassinating people." So whose truth is the truth? Is Assange a hero or a villain, asks G Sampath. Vladimir Putin is a scheming villain plotting to destabilise the West, according to James Kirchik. "As Europe's political stability, social cohesion, economic prosperity and security are more threatened today than at any point since the Cold War, Russia is destabilizing the Continent on every front," he wrote. Europe has 50 countries, of which Russia is but one. Do the leaders of the other 49 bear no responsibility? Russians, on the other hand, see Putin as a saviour who has restored the country's prestige. Not one Western leader has an 82% popularity rating, like Putin. Barack Obama was a great president, according to Charlie Burton. He improved the economy, brought healthcare to millions of poor people through his Affordable Care Act and created a society more tolerant of minorities. But Piers Morgan sees Obama as a pretender who deported 3 million migrants, he dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone, killing thousands, and he did not close Guantanamo prison as he promised. How can there be post-truth if everything is a myth? It's all in the eye of the beholder.