On Bullshit & On Truth

[Bled Welder]

Do you think postmodern writing, is that how it's defined, that there's no difference between the bullshit and the shit, it's all the bomb, Sheer Entertainment 5.0, Pythagoras reduced to ceaseless release dates, mindless pleasures whether we're discussing truths or tits there's no difference, is that the truth, how do you get out of that mess once you step into it, I guess the problem is how to get the bullshit off the soles of the truth, is that what I'm suggesting?
Do writers these days go into postmodern writing already formed by the Morphogenic Resonance of the times, or do they learn it by reading it and discussing it, etc.?  I feel like it was the former for myself, but then again it may well have been the latter, because afterall, to me there is no difference, there is no former, no latter.
I'm exaggerating, aren't I?  Surely I can make simple distinctions, one being Truth, the other Bullshit.  The rings my coffee mug makes on my desk are not coded by other minds.  Other they for you, Alice?  Does playfulness make your text less true?


> Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 17:36:14 -0400
> Subject: On Bullshit & On Truth
> From: alicewellintown at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
> I’m sure most of you know that Harry Gordon Frankfurt,  an American
> philosopher, published a paper, On Bullshit, a philosophical
> investigation of the concept of "bullshit,"and that the paper was
> published as a book and was a bestseller. Did you know he also wrote a
> companion book, On Truth, which explores society's loss of
> appreciation for truth? Like On BS On Truth is a small volume. It is
> written with remarkable clarity and the prose style and logic are
> simply delightful.  At one point, the author cites Spinoza; he
> explains that Spinoza argued that the truth is bound to a love that
> imposes rationality on us. This love makes us feel more alive because
> we feel more fully ourselves. The world is full of confidence men, the
> truth, our postmodern authors would have us believe, is fiction(s), so
> play along and enjoy the game. Does playing make us feel more alive?
> Or is postmodern fiction mere bullshit?
 		 	   		  
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