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The Bullshitter-in-Chief
Donald Trump’s disregard for the truth is something more sinister than ordinary lying.
Updated by Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesiasmatt@vox.com May 30, 2017, 8:40am EDT
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Donald Trump says a lot of things that aren’t true, often shamelessly so, and it’s tempting to call him a liar.
But that’s not quite right. As the Princeton University philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt put it in a famous essay, to lie presumes a kind of awareness of and interest in the truth — and the goal is to convince the audience that the false thing you are saying is in fact true. Trump, more often than not, isn’t interested in convincing anyone of anything. He’s a bullshitter who simply doesn’t care.
In Trump's own book, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, our now-president describes himself in a way that Frankfurt could hold up as the quintessential example of a bullshitter. Trump writes that he’s an "I say what’s on my mind" kind of guy. Pages later, he explains that doesn’t mean he’s necessarily an honest guy.
More: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/30/15631710/trump-bullshit
.. a million to Trump is like buying a Mars bar .. a nose to help you see in your dark ..
Donald Trump’s disregard for the truth is something more sinister than ordinary lying.
Updated by Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesiasmatt@vox.com May 30, 2017, 8:40am EDT
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/54994295/Bullshitter_in_chief.0.jpg)
Javier Zarracina/Vox
Donald Trump says a lot of things that aren’t true, often shamelessly so, and it’s tempting to call him a liar.
But that’s not quite right. As the Princeton University philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt put it in a famous essay, to lie presumes a kind of awareness of and interest in the truth — and the goal is to convince the audience that the false thing you are saying is in fact true. Trump, more often than not, isn’t interested in convincing anyone of anything. He’s a bullshitter who simply doesn’t care.
In Trump's own book, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, our now-president describes himself in a way that Frankfurt could hold up as the quintessential example of a bullshitter. Trump writes that he’s an "I say what’s on my mind" kind of guy. Pages later, he explains that doesn’t mean he’s necessarily an honest guy.
More: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/30/15631710/trump-bullshit
.. a million to Trump is like buying a Mars bar .. a nose to help you see in your dark ..
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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