:: Harry G. Frankfurt : on Bullshit ::

[MegaFeofan]

haha, can be perfectly applied to physics

string theory

bing bang

black holes

dark energy

quarks

shmarks

list goes on

[turgore]

anyone know where I can find this book in text or pdf version ?

[astrothousand98]

BS is just the apparent form of what mostly what I think to be North America has created as a way to lie yet tell the truth and a form in which it persuades peoples in order to go toward there thinking or one different but in a since hiding some truth over it as a form or lie though not a complete of the two...though the world has become so in wrapped with this BS that we have totally lost what is and is not with only others leading others in mindless debates over nothing in particular only a BS

[leezus83]

this is bullshit. who gives a fuck as long as he gets paid.

[monicamir]

Education is full of BS. So much of what we learn is useless, meaningless, pointless and we'll forget it all to get rid of cognitive dissonance. Art is full of BS, take Rothko, for example, black on black, just sprinkle ecoline ink on arabic gum glue, nature can do better..

BS is good if it helps somebody link ideas he would not otherwise. It's nocive if it's deliberately designed to make young people to lose precious time of their youth and misguide them through life.

[steveey251]

The first part is true, But Rothko is an incredible artist, and your clearly looking at art from a very superficial "surface" perspective, evaluating art only by its colors and color relationships, which is SO missing the point of someone like Rothko's art. People have broken down crying in front of Rothko's work. Why is this? There is a lot more to it then meets the eye. If you are only looking at art for the color relationships, your missing the point.

[mellowtribe]

They were crying over such a waste of canvas.

[mellowtribe]

You are correct. Public school is a BS factory. Really the public school system is a juvenile detention center used for baby sitting. If we shut all the public schools down I think we would improve the lives of many and save 700 billion for this colossal bs institution

[joncobber]

@monicamir, I couldnt agree more

[observationspring]

"How would our culture change without BS in it?"

Franfurt: "It would be a lot quiter... Hm. I don't know how it would be different, appart from the fact that a lot of people would find it difficult to say anything."

[REAL88E]

@observationspring advertiser would be out of work and most whitecollar workers would be two