I'm not gonna sugar coat this one, folks. It's a toughie. Bullshiting is a fine art often used in unworthy causes... The trick is to develop your own powers of bullshit for the power of good, and develop your own bullshit sensor in the process. There are few things in life as important as a grand and fully working bullshit sensor.
One of the most unworthy causes you can ever see bullshit used in is the 'third party viewing' bullshit. It goes a little like this:
'I hate you, I have moved on, I never want to see you again, I'm better than you....' Yet every time you turn around this person is in your road waiting to be 'seen' by you.
Get it? Bullshit.
There are so many variations on this theme, and it can involve everything from Facebook and Blogger to the local Winn Dixie that you just KNOW is 18 miles out of his/her way to shop...
Another run of bullshit to be aware of is the 'drunken argument crisis aversion bullshit'. This is the one where you are determined to hash it out, but the person your arguing in just gives in way to quick in order to shut you up... Then you wake up in the morning believing all is well. Is it hell - it's bullshit. They wait on you like a spider and every declaration from the night before is void. This can be deep and painful bullshit when coupled with a royal hangover.
There are good lines of carefully crafted bullshit that can be used for good... An example: 'I think your hair looks fabulous and that dress looks great on you'. When said on the wedding day of a chick trussed up like a neon cow, it's good bullshit. No need to cause pain in a high moment.
I have to tell you, the bullshit that annoys me the most is the 'religious crutch bullshit'. This is the one were someone can be the biggest lying sack of shit on earth, but because they go to church every Sunday and insert 'God' and 'Jesus' in to every other sentence, then they *must* be OK. A person can be the slimiest liar and holier than thou shite-bucket... but if they make Wednesday night prayer meeting and have a blog about soul mates, marriage Monday, and bible verses with their wife - then they are clearly pillars of the community.
I declare that to be bullshit of the worst kind. Beware... fine tune your bullshit sensors. When yo you encounter this sort of bullshit you MUST make sure your give-a-shit stays busted while your fuck-off is in fine working order.
That's all from the gilded soap-box today...
Lxx
ps. stay tuned - my next rant is very likely to be on the subject of the fake and the pretentious
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