If you are willing to limit your statements about reality to things that can be described by (hard) scientific theories, then sure, I'm on board with you (for the convenience of communication and language, i.e. for instrumental reasons).
But if you think that e.g. the evening news represents reality and that people who deny this reality in favour of an alternate reality are harming the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity, I'm afraid I don't agree with you at all. It's all shades of grey, there is no binary distinction. That perspective is a political perspective, and it encodes whole piles of assumptions about what is and ought to be.
Times were simpler before because the people were easier to fool, not because we had a better handle on "reality".
But if you think that e.g. the evening news represents reality and that people who deny this reality in favour of an alternate reality are harming the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity, I'm afraid I don't agree with you at all. It's all shades of grey, there is no binary distinction. That perspective is a political perspective, and it encodes whole piles of assumptions about what is and ought to be.
Times were simpler before because the people were easier to fool, not because we had a better handle on "reality".