bullshit
“Bullshit is a different phenomenon than lying, as lying attempts to influence while being aware of what is true, bullshit on the other hand attempts to influence without any consideration about what is true, or what truth even means.”
from Becoming a Live Player by Peter Limberg
Bullshit, unlike lying, works by making you unconcerned with whether speech is true or false. The bullshitter, like the sophists of antiquity, does not appeal to any measure of truth outside of the needs of the moment. Instead, he tries to capture your attention with the catchiness of his claim and how much it provokes something inside of you: some
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From John Vervaeke: there’s a difference between lying and bullshitting. Lying is about debating the nature of the truth, but bullshitting is more dangerous. A bullshitter acknowledges a lack of truth, but compels you to look somewhere else. When you’re bullshitting yourself, it’s not that your dishonest with yourself, it’s that you don’t have the
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Brandolini's Law (aka the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle):
It takes a lot more energy to refute bullshit than to produce it. Hence, the world is full of unrefuted bullshit.
even if you can’t refute it you can usually feel (or smell ;) the bullshit
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