[Todos] On Bullshit ( III )

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A la comunidad de Exactas
Asunto: El camelo

Cuando tenía 5 años mi madre me llevo a la iglesia. El cura parroco me
dijo que Dios eran tres personas distintas pero un solo Dios verdadero en
contradiccion con la aritmética que me enseñaban en la escuela. Recibi la
impresion que Dios era un imponente personaje con un triangulito en la
cabeza cuyo funcion era mandarme al infierno si cometia un pecado mortal.
A esa tierna edad yo creía en pies juntillas lo que me decian los adultos.
El catecismo recibido de esos cuervos con sotanas me mantuvo en un estado
de terror durante mi infancia. Al fin me hice la paja y purgue toda la
mierda que me habian inculcado. Estoy convencido que esa experiencia me
traumatizo al punto que nunca mas creí en nadie durante mi vida a menos
que me demuestre matematicamente que no es un farsante. Odio a la mentira
en todas sus manifestaciones. En particular, aborrezco el camelo que es mi
palabra en castellano de la inglesa BULLSHIT.  Hacer bullshit no es
exactamente mentir. Bullshitting is short of lying. Para definir bullshit
el filosofo H. Frankfurt escribio un libro:

Frankfurt, Harry G. (2005). On Bullshit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press

He aqui un comentario sobre el libro:

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much
bullshit. 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 bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it.
So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no
clear understanding of what bullshit 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, as Harry Frankfurt
writes, "we have no theory."

Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers,
attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination
of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt
proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are
distinct from lying. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves
to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false
claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all.
Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves
without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They
quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that
claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that
although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it
can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in
a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what
is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy
of the truth than lies are.
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Si Ud tuviera la misma impresion que yo tengo que nuestra facultad
propicia y fomenta el camelo razon por la cual esta llena de farsantes
podria mandarle un articulo de Harry Frankfurt sobre bullshit.