![]() The first lie in the Western canon comes from the same joyful tome as the first murders, wars and plagues: the Old Testament. But be warned: to keep you on your toes there are several bits of BS tucked inside this essay which you will have to find for yourself. For a variety of reasons BS can be hard to detect, which is why I’m offering this primer on it’s detection. The aim of BS isn’t to harm another person, although that often happens collaterally. BS is usually defined as inventions made in ignorance of the facts, where the primary goal is to protect oneself. These are unnecessary deceptions, committed in the gray area between polite white lies and complete malicious fabrications. ![]() One particularly troublesome kind of lie is known as Bullshit (BS). Small lies prop up and support our powerful truths, holding together the insanely half honest, half false chaos that spins the world.īut lies, serious lies, should not be encouraged as they destroy trust, the binding force in all relationships. White lies are the spackle of civilization, tucked into the dirty corners and crevices our necessary, but unrealistically inflexible idealisms create. They buffer us from each other (and from ourselves), avoid unnecessary conflicts, and keep the contradictions of our psychologies tucked away from those who don’t need to care. I’m certain that given our irrational nature and difficulty accepting tough truths, we’re collectively better off with some of our deceptions. From the relationship saving “yes, you do look thin in those pants” to the improbable “your call is important to us”, manipulating the truth is part of the human condition. Everyone lies: it’s just a question of how, when and why.
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