Below is a thesis on Bullshit by Dr. Harry G. Frankfurt:
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much
bullshit.
Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we
tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather
confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being
taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate
concern, nor attracted much sustained inquiry.
In consequence, we have no
clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of
it, or what functions it serves. And we lack
a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In
other words, we have no theory. I propose to begin the
development of a theoretical understanding of bullshit, mainly by
providing some tentative and exploratory philosophical
analysis. I shall not consider the
rhetorical uses and misuses of bullshit.
My aim is simply to give a rough account of what bullshit is and
how it differs from what it is not--or (putting it somewhat
differently) to articulate, more or less sketchily, the structure
of its concept...
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7929.html
oberon, according to your view, you consider your postings to be
bullshit, but what is your definition of bullshit in the first
place?
