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9c5c111 | If "bullshit," as opposed to "bull," is a distinctively modern linguistic innovation, that could have something to do with other distinctively modern things, like advertising, public relations, political propaganda, and schools of education. "One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit," Harry Frankfurt, a distinguished moral philosopher who is professor emeritus at Princeton, says. The ubiquity of bull.. | Jim Holt | ||
7739e9b | VICTORIA, in a letter to her granddaughter Princess Victoria of Hesse, 22 August 1883 | Jim Holt |