(2017) Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous
(2017) Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous
theconversation.com Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous
Inflating his own grand persona is Trump’s sole goal, and he doesn’t care whether or not you believe him.
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Bullshitters, as philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote in his 1986 essay “On Bullshit,” don’t care whether what they are saying is factually correct or not. Instead, bullshit is characterized by a “lack of connection to a concern with truth [and] indifference to how things really are.” Frankfurt explains that a bullshitter “does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”
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