[Luis Dias]

On Bull****

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so
much bull****. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his
share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people
are rather confident of their ability to recognize bull**** and to
avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused
much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In
consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bull**** is,
why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we
lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to
us. In other words, we have no theory. I propose to begin the
development of a theoretical understanding of bull****, mainly by
providing some tentative and exploratory philosophical analysis...

I thought this was interesting and very appropriate for Gen Disc!

[Rodo]

HA! the first lines got me intrigued.

I doubt it's possible to come to a resolution to the subject he's trying to cover with only 20 pages, but it will probably be a good reading material, either for amusement or for learning something.

Thanks.

[BloodEagle]

Read literally (as opposed to idiomatically), this becomes quite surreal.

[An4ximandros]

The link gave me a dead end. :\ Managed to find the "paper" though.

[swashmebuckle]

I applaud that last paragraph especially for the level of pure distilled bull****ness it achieves. I can say in no uncertain terms that this author is singlehandedly doing as much to advance this field of study as an entire highschool English class.

B+

[An4ximandros]

I can't actually get anything following the link now. Aww, I just got me some popcorn and all.

[Nuke]

i think its bull****.

also the link sucks.

[AtomicClucker]

Link is bull****...

But Bravo, we need more of it to fill truck loads of bull****!