The Power of Perception – When Reality Loses the Battle is not another warning about fake news.
It is a book about a world in which truth no longer needs to be banned in order to be defeated. It need only be slower, quieter and less compelling than whatever the screen places before us each day as reality.
The Power of Perception – When Reality Loses the Battle, by Dr Orhan Dragaš, belongs to the latter group. The English edition was brought out by Chiselbury Publishing in Britain, the Italian edition by the renowned Cacucci Editore, and the Serbian edition by Službeni glasnik.
The book became a bestseller in Britain and Italy and has met with the same success in Serbia, while Destek, Turkey’s largest publishing house, will publish the Turkish edition at the end of August. That publishing journey shows that the book’s subject is not confined to one country, one political system or one media culture. It addresses a problem now confronting every society.
The foreword was written by Lord Christopher Geidt, a long-serving adviser and Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II. Geidt observes that many contemporary books examine the conflict between perception and reality, but few can match the breadth of Dragaš’s approach, which brings together philosophy, psychology, the media and digital culture.
He regards it as an exceptional guide for those who still believe that truth matters and refuse to surrender their right to think for themselves.
The book was reviewed by Professor Michael Goodman of King’s College London, one of Britain’s best-known specialists in intelligence studies and international affairs. He calls it exceptionally timely and important, praising the assurance with which Dragaš connects truth, facts and perception to contemporary politics and society. Goodman recommends it to future political leaders, to those who follow current affairs and to everyone who refuses to accept that truth no longer matters.
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