231. Self-Bullsh*t
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2022-11-12

Have you ever watched in horror as someone systematically, deliberately makes every wrong decision necessary for disaster? Philosopher Leslie Howe advances a theory that may help to explain the phenomenon: it’s easy to ignore warning signs if you buy your own bullshit.

NOTE: Right after I uploaded, someone pointed me to an article about a fetish of insane kitchen failures, of which Misty's video may be a part. 🙃 Please feel free to substitute any large, avoidable fail you've seen as an example.

- Links for the Curious -

Bullshit as a practical strategy for self‐deceptive narrators (Howe, 2022) - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phil.12318

‘Pizzagate’ gunman says he was foolish, reckless, mistaken — and sorry - The Washington Post

Lies, Bullshit and Fake News (MacKenzie & Batt, 2020) - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-019-00085-4

A Slice Of Pragmatism: Navigating The Pizzagate Conspiracy, Bullshit and Fake News in the Post-Truth Era (Jones, 2019) - https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/1061163/Jones,%20Madeline%202019.pdf?sequence=1  

Bullshit as a Problem of Social Epistemology (Wakeham, 2017) - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joshua-Wakeham/publication/315321666_Bullshit_as_a_Problem_of_Social_Epistemology/links/5a14dce7aca27273c9eb0ea0/Bullshit-as-a-Problem-of-Social-Epistemology.pdf 


On Bullshit (Frankfurt, 1986) - http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf 

Warrant and action (Gerken, 2011) - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-009-9655-0 

Components of Vested Interest and
Attitude-Behavior Consistency (Crano & Prislin, 1995) - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Radmila-Prislin/publication/247808633_Components_of_Vested_Interest_and_Attitude-Behavior_Consistency/links/54adca260cf2213c5fe4199c/Components-of-Vested-Interest-and-Attitude-Behavior-Consistency.pdf  

Self-Regulatory Aspects of Bullshitting and Bullshit Detection (Petrocelli et al, 2020) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341055056_Self-Regulatory_Aspects_of_Bullshitting_and_Bullshit_Detection/link/5f654c24a6fdcc00862d1395/download 

Probably not the best idea I’ve ever had (Mistie Knight) - https://www.instagram.com/p/ChiYvGOJz5I/?hl=en 

Expensive Fails: Mo Money, Mo Fails | FailArmy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaWn4VP37SU