Bullshit Is A Greater Enemy Of The

One Of The Most Salient Features Of Our Culture Is That There Is So Much Bullshit.

It Is Impossible For Someone To Lie Unless He Thinks He Knows The Truth. Producing Bullshit Requires No Such Conviction.

I Was Raised In Brooklyn And In Baltimore. My Father Was A Bookkeeper. When I Was 36 Years Old, My Mother Told Me I Was Adopted.

There Are Significant Relationships, Of Course, Between Wanting Things And Caring About Them..the Notion Of Caring Is In Large Part Constructed Out Of The Notion Of Desire. Caring About Something May Be, In The End, Nothing More Than A Certain Complex Mode Of Wanting It. However, Simply Attributing Desire To A Person Does Not In Itself Convey That The Person Cares About The Object He Desires.

The Fact About Himself That The Liar Hides Is That He Is Attempting To Lead Us Away From A Correct Apprehension Of Reality; We Are Not To Know That He Wants Us To Believe Something He Supposes To Be False. The Fact About Himself That The Bullshitter Hides, On The Other Hand, Is That The Truth-values Of His Statements Are Of No Central Interest To Him . . . He Does Not Care Whether The Things He Says Describe Reality Correctly. He Just Picks Them Out, Or Makes Them Up, To Suit His Purpose.