231. Self-Bullsh*t
Have you ever watched in horror as someone systematically, deliberately makes every wrong decision necessary for disaster? Philosopher Leslie Howe advances a theory that may help to explain the phenomenon: it’s easy to ignore warning signs if you buy your own bullshit.
NOTE: Right after I uploaded, someone pointed me to an article about a fetish of insane kitchen failures, of which Misty's video may be a part. 🙃 Please feel free to substitute any large, avoidable fail you've seen as an example.
Links for the Curious -
Bullshit as a practical strategy for self‐deceptive narrators (Howe, 2022) - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
‘Pizzagate’ gunman says he was foolish, reckless, mistaken — and sorry - The Washington Post
Lies, Bullshit and Fake News (MacKenzie & Batt, 2020) - https://link.springer.com/article/10....
A Slice Of Pragmatism: Navigating The Pizzagate Conspiracy, Bullshit and Fake News in the Post-Truth Era (Jones, 2019) - https://repository.library.georgetown...
Bullshit as a Problem of Social Epistemology (Wakeham, 2017) - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
On Bullshit (Frankfurt, 1986) - http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12...
Warrant and action (Gerken, 2011) - https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Components of Vested Interest and
Attitude-Behavior Consistency (Crano & Prislin, 1995) - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
Self-Regulatory Aspects of Bullshitting and Bullshit Detection (Petrocelli et al, 2020) - https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Probably not the best idea I’ve ever had (Mistie Knight) - https://www.instagram.com/p/ChiYvGOJz...
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