One of the key characteristics of the postmodern world is bullshit. It is omnipresent in the world we live in particularly in the core societies historically impacted by flim flam snake oil bullshite capitalism, one of the children of perhaps the original bullshitter, religion. We have bullshit jobs in bureaucracies of all type, governmental and non-governmental, public and private, economic, political, and cultural, and even in academe which some hoped would prove, thanks to the empirical method, to be a bullshite free zone but it, of course, has been coopted by the forces of neoliberal bullshite, who are amongst the world's foremost bullshitters. Bullshit infuses the rhetoric and interactions associated with branding, public relations, politics, sport, everyday life, and the new digital media, and the latter has probably been more instrumental in spreading this social and cultural disease wider and more broadly than any other communications form before it. And bullshite is at the heart of a thriving anti-intellectual culture particularly among the delusional right who, like several other prize winning bullshiters before it, such as right wing Christianity, Dixiemania, and Bircherism, which are all today linked in the increasingly cultish Republican Party, have come roaring out of the closet along with the neoliberal revival during the Seventeenth Great Awakening, and have become increasingly visible and vocal in the second decade of the twenty first century.
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