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Generalbecome a better b*s*tter ? academic guidance available ! Pin
BillWoodruff8-Nov-14 17:24
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Dr. Harry Frank, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Princeton, in a video interview, offers some keen insights into the philosophical meaning, social construction, and dynamics, of b*s*t which may be invaluable in assisting you ... if you are in the difficult transition from being a skilled liar to apprentice b*s*tter: [^].

In a future world where economists suggest that ... in only twenty years, or so ... half of "traditional" white-collar jobs will simply disappear, replaced by robotic technology, and automation: increasing, refining, honing to a dialectical razor's edge, your skills in ... even the art of ... b*s*tting may be a very valuable investment ... if not for you, for your children.

After all, haven't you observed how skill in b*s*tting appears to be essential in your workplace to rise through the ranks of management ? Haven't you seen, or experienced, social situations in which some one person, through clever b*s, somehow manages to "hog the limelight," to get credit for work, or behavior, or ideas, that, really, they contributed little too ?

I must caution you that Dr. Frank is, obviously, an enemy of b*st, and that he clearly lacks appreciation for the role of b*s in entertainment, in providing a psychic safety valve for creating an alternative interpretation of events, or realities, useful in surviving difficult times in the lives of individuals or groups. Even more damning is the incredible fact that nowhere in the interview does Dr. Frank use the words gemeinschaft and/or geschellschaft !

But, if there is one thing essential to the skill/craft/art/science of b*s*tting, I'm sure you will agree, it is the ability to continually learn from the strategems and rhetorical devices of those who seek to reduce social communication to a joyless un-spontaneous search for some mythical "truth."

In the spirit of the ancient maxim, "know your enemy," I believe you will profit, as well as laugh, from studying Dr. Frank's analysis.

But ... another caution ... beware of that seductive temptation offered when you see someone who is clearly driven by a suppressed desire to know the joys of b*s*tting, an invidious inner lust to "let it all hang out," so to speak: you may fall into the trap, out of your own inner weakness in the form of pity/compassion/empathy, of catering to such a deprived person by "toning down" your own flights of hyper-real fantastic embroidering of who, and what, you are !

Let the "realists" carry their own wounded off the field, and ... well ... party-on, dude.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"

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