lew-basnight:

Reading an interesting book (actually it’s an essay bound and printed, it’s like 60 pages) about rhetoric and communications in the “post-truth” world, and it’s got an interesting discussion of bullshit. Bullshit is not lying— to lie means your know a truth and are invested in convincing people it’s not true. Bullshit is just saying whatever gets you what you want, and it’s much harder to confront. Because it doesn’t matter if you “disprove” bullshit. It’s conditional to the circumstances in which you’re saying it, and if you’ve already swayed your crowd then it doesn’t matter if it’s true of not

This is kinda what I’m getting at when I talked about autopilot and the allistic sociality – there’s this whole way of like communicatively interacting with people that doesn’t involve consciously choosing words and thoughts that have to be logically reasoned out, it’s kind of like how other characters in dreams have dialogue that had to be generated by your brain somehow, and as far as I can tell it’s mediated by a feedback loop where you ~through woo~ read how it’s being recieved by your audience and lock on to that as a guidance beam?

Anyway its increasingly clear to me that’s what great salesmen and Casanovas (or even Smoove B R&B-cheese characters) are tapping into.