Degringolade

Expressionism / Fikret Mualla Saygi/ Yellow Dress

Had a great weekend bullshitting and partying with the posse.

https://youtu.be/QA4DG804VuI

I sent the crew a link yesterday.  I think that it had a bunch of relevance to our ongoing conversations here and in e-mail.

 https://peterludlow.medium.com/the-varieties-of-bullshit-5edd5b0aff4e

Now, I think that there needs to be a clear definition that what was done while smoking dope and drinking did in fact constitute bullshit, but it is the Biggie Smalls flavor of bullshit.  This form of bullshit is how males bond and reinforce friendships.  I consider this to be a good thing.

What I am proposing is three domains of bullshit.  

1. Domestic Bullshit (as described above):  This is the largest domain and the least harmful.  It is the realm of armchair generals and recliner head coaches, and monday morning quarterbacks.  If they actually offered the ability to make real the opinions/theories held here, the purveyors of such would likely run the other direction as fast as their feet would carry them.

2. Workplace Bullshit:  This is hierarchical bullshit.  It usually involves work that has no real purpose other than assisting one’s supervisors efforts to shove their nose up the upper management’s ass to improve their chances of joining those hollowed ranks.  It usually is fluff and administrative nonsense that allows the supervisor assigning it to prove that they can kiss ass with the best of them.  (Note:  In the actual workplace, both domestic bullshit and workplace bullshit, but they merely coexist in a particular spacetime locus.  Care must be taken to differentiate).

3. Academic Bullshit:  This is the smallest domain.  It is folks somewhere, somehow, having the time and energy to sit down, and to the best of their abilities, set down the nature and direction of a complex world in letters and number on a sheet of paper or a tragically inconvenienced stream of electrons.  The range of potential subject matter is inexhaustible and the ability to understand and express the full range of nuance required for conveying the vagaries of a complex world are pretty thin on the ground.

This is only a first (and most likely last) attempt to categorize this ephemera we call bullshit.  It is a valid term with any number of uses and covers a broad swath of humanities actions/communications.

I will probably think about the knock-on effects of bullshit over the next couple of days.  I am thinking that there is some meat here to explore prior to putting out more bullshit here in this cul de sac of the internet.