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Its very easy to look at your own time, and the particular details of your time, and see something unique and special, but it's rarely true. The quick-talking-s
by jyounker 3y ago
Its very easy to look at your own time, and the particular details of your time, and see something unique and special, but it's rarely true. The quick-talking-stream-of-connsciousness bullshitter aptly describes snake oil salesman and evangelists also. It's the bread-and-butter of classic carnival barkers, and the heart of the con.
SBF is the same classic huckster, but wrapped up in a hoodie.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> the bread-and-butter of classic carnival barkers Who were widespread in the industrial era. Less so before. (In part because peasants didn't have the disposable income to scam.)
- TheOtherHobbes 3y agoThey used to pose as alchemists. "Fund me and I will produce an endless supply of gold." Two years later. "How it's going?" "Making progress, not quite there yet. I'm going to need more funding." And so on.
- rwmj 3y agoThe sophists in ancient Athens maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist#Democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist#Democracy
- SilasX 3y agoSo you just moved the goalposts from "this is new and unique to the recent wave of Silicon Valley bullshitters" to "well, this started in the industrial era"?