[MD] Missing the Point

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>:

> Robert Robinson Recommended Harry Frankfurt's "On Bullshit".
> 
> Platt said:
> I bought it, read it and tossed it. Like the title, I thought it was 
> bullshit.
> 
> dmb says:
> That figures. Maybe a few quotes from the book will explain why...
> 
> "He (the 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." (p.56)
> 
> "The bullshitter ...does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar 
> does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue 
> of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are." (p.61)
> 
> "Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk 
> without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is 
> stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about 
> some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that 
> topic." (p.63)

Typical of many intellectuals -- taking hundreds of words, in this case a
book, to define what a 6-year old knows, in this case, what "bullshit" means.
I ask anyone who wasted his time reading the book what she learned that she
didn't know before.

The selection of the above quotes followed by a swarmy remark is, of course,
intended to smear me, a typical tactic of someone who is incapable of making
a cogent argument.


   



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