Re: The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit | Quillette

Posted by Gillian Densmore on May 13, 2016; 10:28pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-Unbearable-Asymmetry-of-Bullshit-Quillette-tp7587214p7587479.html

So what you're saying is MrDrumpf is a business person with a bit of a umm Issue With  Correct Statements are concerned.

Sounds familliar

and also here

and here

I think there's a pattern here. Hmmm so to be a good business person you need to be a Sith Lord?

Who have mastered the fine and Nobel art of saying Whatever The Heck is on there mind from what I can tell. 

The difference is that a Sith Lord might Get'r Done

Now see he had a alergy to BS. He didn't bother with a rebuttle. He just fired them. :P

True they tended to kind of Gurgle and gasp while be being told You are the weakest link. But at least  he got it done. :P

BS is also a fine art. The real question is what's the pot or RedComet (or Guiness or other Ails and Meads) to BS.  To BS you can't KNOW you're BSing just say what ever comes to mind and let someone translate what you said. 

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:07 AM, glen <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 03/02/2016 09:12 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> http://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/

On Bullshit: Donald Trump, Harry Frankfurt, and Indifference to Truth
CFI Institute Online Course
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 • 8:00-9:30 PM
https://secure.centerforinquiry.net/education/events/on-bullshit-donald-trump-harry-frankfurt-and-indifference-to-truth

"Donald Trump’s primary campaign is a landmark in the history of bullshit. As of this writing, 78 percent of Trump’s campaign trail claims evaluated by the nonpartisan website PolitiFact have been rated Mostly False, False, or Pants on Fire. Trump’s deceptions range from the inflammatory, to the self-serving, to the conspiratorial: That he saw New Jersey Muslims celebrating the fall of the World Trade Center on 9/11. That he never went bankrupt. That vaccines cause autism.

In his classic paper, “On Bullshit,” philosopher Harry Frankfurt argues that the hallmark of bullshit is indifference to truth. A liar knows the truth and takes pains to misrepresent it convincingly. A bullshitter casually mixes fact and fiction because, for him, the truth is beside the point. Trump is the epitome of a Frankfurtian bullshitter in that his rhetoric is crafted purely to impress his audience in the moment. His proposal to build a wall between the United States and Mexico is a case in point. We will discuss how Trump’s success reflects our post-factual politics and what we can do to resist disinformation.

Lindsay Beyerstein is an investigative journalist in Brooklyn, New York. She co-hosts CFI’s flagship radio show and podcast, Point of Inquiry. Her reporting has appeared in The New Republic, Al Jazeera America, The Columbia Journalism Review, Salon, Slate, Newsweek, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and other publications. She was the recipient of a 2015 Beacon of Reason Award from Oregonians for Science and Reason. She holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from Tufts University."

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