LIARS AND BULLSHITTERS !!!

I'm referring here to mostly Arab regimes now in conflict with their people ie; the Syrian or Bahrainy regimes to name a few in the Arab world, but by no means the only example of bullshit regimes in the world, North Korea with it's own news and ways, is another very descriptive case of the bullshit regime in our world today. People and leaders are victims of the two categories as well.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them.

For most people, the fact that a statement is false constitutes in itself a reason, however weak, not to make the statement.

What a bullshitting regime essentially represent is not the state of affairs to which the regime refers to nor the beliefs of the regime or it's leaders.

The bullshitter regime ignores these demands( whether from it's people or it's own) altogether. It does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar regime does and oppose himself to it. The bullshitter regime pays no attention to truth at all, nor is such a regime interested in the truth. By virtue of this, bullshit regimes are a far greater enemy of the truth than liars are.

This same unfortunate state of affairs apply today very well to the United States own affairs, I'm of course referring to the electoral mood and arguments of a good number of Americans, republicans and others, voters or leaders, regarding the reelection of the actual President for office in 2012.



Thanks as usual for your time and patience, your comments are always welcome, salamat.

BEGGING THE QUESTION !!

Many hold political, religious or social opinions not because they have any reason to think them true, but just because they like the associations.

We live in mobile and complex societies, there is no need to feel bound to one style of thinking forever.

I must confess that since I started blogging and putting down my opinions and ideas, there has been no deep reform of my character. I still want to write those lines. It's just that what gets me so irritated and sometimes even angered doesn't seem to be of the least interest to the readers of my blog. Nor to my increasingly fewer friends, who yawn and roll their eyes as I explain my concerns.

What bothers me so much ??

Errors in reasoning, misconceptions, faulty or misleading reasoning, unsound arguments, confused or mistaken beliefs, call it what you want, you know the kind of thing I mean.

Why are we protesters so lonely ?? why don't we all complain to whoever else will listen ?

The simple answer is that most people don't notice the problem. When a car for instance, breaks down, anyone can see that it has, even if he or she knows nothing about how cars work. Reasoning is different. Unless you know how reasoning can go wrong, you can't see that it has. Which makes for huge numbers of innocent suckers, unable to resist the fake reasoning of those who want something from them, such as votes or money or devotion.

Covering those errors in reasoning that are commonly encountered, when discussing or debating controversial topics, drawn from politics, theology, business or the social, and wherever people engage in reasoned debate. Is what we ought to aim for.



Thanks for your time , and your understanding, and as usual salamat to all.