[FRIAM] whackadoodles go mainstream!
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gepropella at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 20:42:53 EDT 2020
Well, bullshit is different from both purposeful deception or wrongheaded justification (following Frankfurt's argument in "On Bullshit"). And I'd argue that not all bullshitters are purposeful. E.g. I think Trump's *mostly* an accidental bullshitter ... if he wasn't born with money, he'd be just like 1000 guys you meet in pubs across the world. But if I'm right and this Project Evidence document is bullshit, whether it's purposeful or accidental bullshit is irrelevant.
On 4/20/20 5:21 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> Assuming this is actually *crafted propaganda* rather than just
> *wrongheaded justification* I would like to believe that the *deliberate
> duplicity* would be exposable by inspection and then somewhat obvious in
> hindsight. And yes, this is how the TL;DR aspect would seem to
> contribute to it's opacity.
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