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Definitely. It takes hours to properly argue. It takes minutes to bullshit. How many times do you give up on a social media argument just because you don't wan

• wpietri 10y ago
  And I think the more troubling problem is that bullshitters are generally indifferent to or hostile to the truth, to the very inclination to seek truth. The primary lens through which they evaluate statements is "personally useful to me", not "true". So even if I carefully build a case for "true", it won't make much of a difference. At best, they decide their next personally useful statement is a non sequitur or a topic change or just going to some other context that is useful. To me that's one of the really amazing things about Trump's rise. He really doesn't care about facts or logic or consistency. Even among politicians, he's a standout; none of his Republican opponents could come to grips with how totally irrelevant accuracy or orthodoxy are to his game. People keep trying to figure out what his true views are, but at this point I don't think that's a meaningful question. And I should add that this isn't a left vs right issue; a recent example of a left-wing demagogue was Venezuela's Chavez. But Trump's rise is the first time I've gotten to see it happen up close.
• pixl97 10y ago
  >It takes minutes to bullshit. And it is quite disappointing because most people only have a few moments of attention span.
• Chris2048 10y ago
  The remedy to this is burden of proof.