\nReading an interesting book (actually it\u2019s an essay bound and printed, it\u2019s like 60 pages) about rhetoric and communications in the \u201cpost-truth\u201d world, and it\u2019s got an interesting discussion of bullshit. Bullshit is not lying\u2014 to lie means your know a truth and are invested in convincing people it\u2019s not true. Bullshit is just saying whatever gets you what you want, and it\u2019s much harder to confront. Because it doesn\u2019t matter if you \u201cdisprove\u201d bullshit. It\u2019s conditional to the circumstances in which you\u2019re saying it, and if you\u2019ve already swayed your crowd then it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s true of not
This is kinda what I’m getting at when I talked about autopilot and the allistic sociality \u2013 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.
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