Bullshit

On the subject of bullshit, I think there is a lot to be said. But what it immediate brings to my mind is the limitations of the English language. So many times we have just one word that we want to mean too many things. Many times it is curse words that serve double to quintuple duties. Calling someone an asshole, for instance, indicates two nearly contrary insults. The primary being a mean-spirited bully who goes out of his way to be a jerk and the secondary is a real clod, a goon, a doofus, a stooge, or a punk-bitch, something along those lines. Actually now that I think about it jerk works equally for both. It too has those same meanings. It is not however true to say that asshole is any less effective as a word because someone might not understand the right definition when the word is being used.

But Bullshit, now the two different ideas there do matter a great deal. Perhaps it is because bullshit is what we produce and not a reductive idea of what we are. It doesn’t matter, really, if we are called an asshole and we are being a chump but everyone thinks we are being a mean little shit. We are still labeled negative and that was the insulter’s intent all along, albeit at its most basic level. Bullshit on the other hand has two different kinds. More unlike than they are similar.

There is the bullshit that someone believes. This often is a political thought or it is a religious belief. This is the kind of thing that keeps hate alive and makes boring motherfuckers talk about the right way to stain a deck or whatever else boring motherfuckers do with their time. And there is the kind of bullshit that makes it glorious to be a human. It is the shit we shoot and what makes it possible to have this.

What kind of bullshit is that? The best kind. Do you have any idea the amount of energy that went into all that bullshit to make that a thing? I mean it is not just the immediate bullshit of the wiki. Or the show. Or of television. Or of writing for a living. Or of acting for a living. Or of the day to day comedy of life. It is all that and more. It is one of the many evolutionary lines of bullshit that we can see today. And all that bullshit is built on some other nice bullshit until the dawn of man.

That is enough of this bullshit. Let’s talk about something else. Or the same old bullshit. It is your call.