America thrives on bullshit...

A lot of what America is built on is bullshit these days...

Bullshit is entertaining, its reliable and its everywhere.

The rest of the US is built on sound principles and proven techniques. The creative "place holding" stories we spin as citizens to one another to impress, inform, educate and continue the proliferation of our values and place in the world.

Bullshit is unfounded and unproven ideas that are mere opinion and not fact. We are conditioned to be impressed with bullshit here in the US in order for us to go out into the world and change it for the better. We listen to eachother earnestly because we might pick up a tip or technique to deliver our own bullshit stories and rhetoric.

In some cases, we confuse bullshit with facts which helps us with our particular agenda.

I found this quote on an American guy's website. He was wanting comments on his travel website photos. I though it quite telling.


"Critics and comments:

If you got sumpt’n to say, then say it. I want to hear it… the Good the Bad & the Ugly. If you don’t got sumpt’n to say, well, then do the next best thing; make up some bullsh!t and send it my way."

Need I say more...

Harry G. Frankfurt has a few words to say about Bullshit. Pick up his book and take a look...