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The Bulwark Podcast
This classic work by the renowned moral philosopher was cited to describe the current age as one filled with technical bullshit, where people ignore or reject the distinction between truth and falsity.
I mean, I wrote that it's almost feels like piling on to note that we live in the age of bullshit, but I meant it in the technical sense that Harry Frankfurt meant it when he wrote his magisterial cla...
— Episode: Charlie and Will Monday: Vivek’s BS
Episode: Charlie and Will Monday: Vivek’s BS
This classic work by the renowned moral philosopher was cited to describe the current age as one filled with technical bullshit, where people ignore or reject the distinction between truth and falsity.
I mean, I wrote that it's almost feels like piling on to note that we live in the age of bullshit, but I meant it in the technical sense that Harry Frankfurt meant it when he wrote his magisterial classic on bullshit.
And he wrote that before Trump. And he actually thought that bullshit was a greater enemy of truth than lies because at least liars kind of know there's truth and they're challenging it. But bullshitters just don't know or care about the truth and they ignore or reject the distinction between truth and falsity altogether.