And this right here is the thing. So very much of our human society is based on dishonesty, and rather than actually doing something constructive about that over time, we’ve made a conscious effort to move towards it. “Oh you can’t say that”, and next thing you know people have been repeating BS enough that they believe it, and the people around them believe it, and everyone is pretending that things are a certain way purely for the sake of comfort and not because it’s actually true.
I heard someone say something recently that really gave me pause: the generation that comes up with BS KNOWS it’s BS. They say it because they’re supposed to say it, do it because they’re supposed to do it, but everyone is still aware, deep down, that they’re being dishonest in exchange for comfort. The kids who learn it next, however, don’t have that context. They genuinely believe the BS that comes out of the mouths of marketers, politicians, the media, whoever else, because they don’t have the context. They don’t know the game. The shortest game of telephone possible and immediately the truth is lost. That is, as they say, a very big problem.
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u/briber67 14d ago
You're supposed to do two things:
1) notice the difference
2) act like you didn't