Bullshit by the Numbers
The internet, spelled properly, reads “Doom.” This is true in spite of the fact that none of the letters actually spell “D – O – O - M.” That’s because the spelling that I’ve chosen is metaphorical, not literal. The real problem is, that when it comes to the internet, all things are possible, no matter how improbable.
For instance, a sensation can be created and then reiterated without regard for facts. Who needs facts when you can sell an audience of like-minded folk on whatever bullshit you’ve concocted? No one’s going to check. Or, if they do, they’ll be the few, not the many. The many will go along because the story, whatever it may be, reflects their inner urge. If they want to believe that racism is alive and well and is as terrible as ever, you’d think they’d look at the evidence and reasonably conclude otherwise. But no, such people exist mostly in their own heads, while their cadre of internet compatriots equal a kind of global “ménage-a-dumb” of similarly inclined mental and emotional defectives. That way none of them recognizes just how ill-informed they really are.
After reading these few paragraphs to my wife she said “That’s pretty cruel. Why do you have to write with such spite?” Oh. This doesn’t begin to tow the mark in terms of appropriately spite-infested hate that I feel. That’s because I know. I see, what’s going on. And, it ain’t pretty.
So, let me lay out some examples of endless half true statements or “Bullshitisms” as I call them which are slung with remarkably little regard for the facts:
Bullshitism no. 1 - “The civil war wasn’t fought over slavery. It was fought to keep the South from seceding from the union.”
This is technically true, but only if you fail to take into account the reason that the South was seceding, which was slavery, pure and simple. If the North had been so inclined, they could’ve just dropped their opposition to slavery and let bygones be bygones. But no, they were adamant, which led to the civil war, the bloodiest damned war America ever fought in terms of loss of American lives. But that doesn’t count, for progressives because their motives weren’t pure enough. I guess 650,000 dead just isn’t sufficient compensation for the crimes of about 2% of the population. That is how many people actually owned slaves. But don’t tell anybody, otherwise, people will start to see thru the ruse.
Here’s another “Bullshitism” the left likes to use:
Bullshitism no. 2 - The existing disparity in wealth between Blacks and Whites can be directly attributed to programs and laws that gave opportunity to one group and not the other, such as post-WWII housing and business loans which were given to White Americans and not Black Americans, when both fought and died for the same cause.
Again, this is true, but it’s hardly the whole story. The U.S. government has spent nearly fifty trillion dollars on a variety of income support programs that disproportionately went to Black Americans over the last 50 years. That doesn’t include a range of affirmative action programs or preferences in lucrative government contracts for minority-owned businesses, either. Preferential treatment with very different standards for college entrance exams, including elite universities is the norm, as well.
Yes, Whites and other groups benefitted, too, but African Americans did so, well beyond their statistical portion of the population. Americans have also endured forty plus years of bussing in our school system, in order to create greater opportunity for minorities, in particular Blacks.
Remarkably, many of the issues that these programs were designed to alleviate, simply grew worse, as the result. And, their effects can be seen by simply looking at the range of social pathologies that have only grown in America’s inner cities over the same period of time—even as African Americans have become the wealthiest African ancestral culture on earth.
And, that, my friends is the tip of the iceberg of misinformation that abounds like fields of poisonous wheat, fed as though it were manna from above by progressives. Without it, the left would be bereft of policies. Race, sex, gender, income inequality, these things are the lifeblood of the progressive left. Not jobs. Not freedom. Not real opportunity, which comes from individual initiative. But grievance mongering, ill-informed, mostly baseless, guilt-inducing, bullshit. It is continued dependence on big brother that drives the left. Minus those things, they’d have to get real jobs. Better to feed endlessly off the tax teat and manufacture division than do that.
Claude Hopper
For instance, a sensation can be created and then reiterated without regard for facts. Who needs facts when you can sell an audience of like-minded folk on whatever bullshit you’ve concocted? No one’s going to check. Or, if they do, they’ll be the few, not the many. The many will go along because the story, whatever it may be, reflects their inner urge. If they want to believe that racism is alive and well and is as terrible as ever, you’d think they’d look at the evidence and reasonably conclude otherwise. But no, such people exist mostly in their own heads, while their cadre of internet compatriots equal a kind of global “ménage-a-dumb” of similarly inclined mental and emotional defectives. That way none of them recognizes just how ill-informed they really are.
After reading these few paragraphs to my wife she said “That’s pretty cruel. Why do you have to write with such spite?” Oh. This doesn’t begin to tow the mark in terms of appropriately spite-infested hate that I feel. That’s because I know. I see, what’s going on. And, it ain’t pretty.
So, let me lay out some examples of endless half true statements or “Bullshitisms” as I call them which are slung with remarkably little regard for the facts:
Bullshitism no. 1 - “The civil war wasn’t fought over slavery. It was fought to keep the South from seceding from the union.”
This is technically true, but only if you fail to take into account the reason that the South was seceding, which was slavery, pure and simple. If the North had been so inclined, they could’ve just dropped their opposition to slavery and let bygones be bygones. But no, they were adamant, which led to the civil war, the bloodiest damned war America ever fought in terms of loss of American lives. But that doesn’t count, for progressives because their motives weren’t pure enough. I guess 650,000 dead just isn’t sufficient compensation for the crimes of about 2% of the population. That is how many people actually owned slaves. But don’t tell anybody, otherwise, people will start to see thru the ruse.
Here’s another “Bullshitism” the left likes to use:
Bullshitism no. 2 - The existing disparity in wealth between Blacks and Whites can be directly attributed to programs and laws that gave opportunity to one group and not the other, such as post-WWII housing and business loans which were given to White Americans and not Black Americans, when both fought and died for the same cause.
Again, this is true, but it’s hardly the whole story. The U.S. government has spent nearly fifty trillion dollars on a variety of income support programs that disproportionately went to Black Americans over the last 50 years. That doesn’t include a range of affirmative action programs or preferences in lucrative government contracts for minority-owned businesses, either. Preferential treatment with very different standards for college entrance exams, including elite universities is the norm, as well.
Yes, Whites and other groups benefitted, too, but African Americans did so, well beyond their statistical portion of the population. Americans have also endured forty plus years of bussing in our school system, in order to create greater opportunity for minorities, in particular Blacks.
Remarkably, many of the issues that these programs were designed to alleviate, simply grew worse, as the result. And, their effects can be seen by simply looking at the range of social pathologies that have only grown in America’s inner cities over the same period of time—even as African Americans have become the wealthiest African ancestral culture on earth.
And, that, my friends is the tip of the iceberg of misinformation that abounds like fields of poisonous wheat, fed as though it were manna from above by progressives. Without it, the left would be bereft of policies. Race, sex, gender, income inequality, these things are the lifeblood of the progressive left. Not jobs. Not freedom. Not real opportunity, which comes from individual initiative. But grievance mongering, ill-informed, mostly baseless, guilt-inducing, bullshit. It is continued dependence on big brother that drives the left. Minus those things, they’d have to get real jobs. Better to feed endlessly off the tax teat and manufacture division than do that.
Claude Hopper