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When is bullshit real bullshit? (opens in new tab)

The philosopher Harry Frankfurt called bullshit ‘one of the most salient features of our culture’. For Frankfurt, the essence of bullshit was not the intention to deceive but ‘indifference to how things really are’. But does that make bullshit worse than lies? And what exactly is the difference?

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