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EN-JP translator working in games and Japanese-American living in the former. Trying to do more with reading theory plus other projects. Views unfortunately banging around in my own head.
![Essay titled Complete Bullshit by G.A. Cohen. The page has a decorative banner with "Marxismus sine stercore tauri--SEPTEMBER GROUP" written on it, which translates to "Marxism without the shit of the bull." i. deeper intO bullshit
bullshit n. & v. coarse sl.— n. 1 (often as int.) nonsense, rubbish. 2 trivial or insincere
talk or writing.—v. intr. (-shitted, -shitting) talk nonsense; bluff. bullshitter n.
— Oxford English Dictionary
it is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth—this indifference to how things
really are—that i regard as the essence of bullshit.
—Harry frankfurt
1. Harry frankfurt’s essay “on Bullshit”1 is a pioneering and brilliant discussion
of a widespread but largely unexamined cultural phenomenon. on being hon-
ored by an invitation to contribute to the present volume, i decided to focus on
frankfurt’s work on bullshit, partly because it is so original and so interesting,
and partly because bullshit, and the struggle against it, have played a large role
in my own intellectual life. They have played that role because of my interest in
Marxism, which caused me to read, when i was in my twenties, a great deal of the
french Marxism of the 1960s, deriving principally from the Althusserian school.
i found that material hard to understand, and, because i was naive enough
to believe that writings that were attracting a great deal of respectful, and even
1 [All page references in this chapter are to this essay unless otherwise indicated.— ed.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rogmu6su5m6trks2wjrwsxqw/bafkreihkwdjheasmq2ycxrdsb35n6mew5of3fs3kynteskfhdnzrzx5ive)
