Monday, April 21, 2008

B is for Bullshit...

In this A to Z of Life B is for Bullshit.......


These days bullshit is everywhere. It's carried across continents and beamed in from space in a way that was inconceivable a couple generations ago and it spreads..boy does it spread! Bullshit moves faster than any bird flu or super bug. This mass bullshit doesn't really bother me that much. I see it as the price we must inevitably pay for technological development. We some control over the media we listen to, bottom line is we can always switch it off. No, what bothers me is the amount of bullshit prevalent in the personal interaction we all have in this wonderful twenty first century of ours.

Its almost like some people have found another orifice from which to produce flatulent crap from. Our noses may not be able to smell these verbal farts but they sure do stink!

Now don't get me wrong people! A certain amount of shooting the shit is very, very healthy. In small doses bullshit is an essential social lubricant. It helps keep heavy things as light as they can be. Indeed people come from all over to kiss a certain stone in Ireland-the Blarney stone-in an attempt to somehow magically appropriate some bullshit.

Naw what bothers me is the type of bullshit that leads to people making up the rules of the game as they go....and then changing them. The type of bullshit that leads to people becoming entirely delusional and completely divorced from who they really are. The bullshit that allows people to think they are kings and queens and consequently allows them to treat others as their serfs and the entire world as there personal domain. The type of bullshit that leads people to hate themselves and kill themselves and others fighting over the map not the territory.

We all need a good nose for bullshit...a veritable bullshit detector...bullshit can be useful, bullshit can be fun...the key thing to remember is to know when you are bullshitting yourself.

Enough of this bullshit...I'm off to sleep!

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