The politics of alternate reality

After all, pundits and politicians and political partisans sometimes create their own alternate realities and their own alternate Earths. And it’s a tendency, unfortunately, which usually leads to mistakes.

On the cover of the Rolling Stone: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on the July 26 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. What made that interview controversial were Mr. Trudeau’s own ill-chosen words about his boxing match with Senator Patrick Brazeau. He later expressed regret for causing offence, but the fact that he didn’t foresee the negative reaction his statement would trigger is a sure sign he was living in his own alternate reality. Rolling Stone cover

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

August 7, 2017

OAKVILLE, ONT.—According to a quantum physics theory (my understanding of which is based mainly on what I learned from watching Star Trek), there exists an infinite number of alternate Earths and thus an infinite number of alternate realities. It’s a fantastic, mind-boggling concept to...

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