Neil Postman - Bullshit and the Art of Crap-Detection | Critical Thinking Snippets - 5 views
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by people who use fancy titles, words, phrases, and sentences to obscure their own insufficiencies.
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Jaap Bosman on 04 Feb 14Lots of people do suspect Deleuze of this kind of Crap, I have a feeling they could be right.
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But with the development of the mass media, inanity has suddenly emerged as a major form of language in public matters.
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all human communications have deeply embedded and profound hidden agendas
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"Postman's Third Law: "At any given time, the chief source of bullshit with which you have to contend is yourself." Postman's Fourth Law: "Almost nothing is about what you think it is about-including you."
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I am somebody who like to go back to sources. Here is the original speech in case some of you may find it useful" http://aquadoc.typepad.com/files/bs_speech_postman-1.pdf
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much thanks for the full article -- I like Postman and to go back to sources too