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“The bullshitter may not deceive us, or even intend to do so, about the facts [...] What he does necessarily attempt to deceive us about is his enterprise. His only indispensably distinctive characteristic is that he misrepresents what he is up to.
The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says.
He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose”
Harry Frankfurt's 'On Bullshit'