Bullshit: Take it or Leave it

After reading " A Kind Word for Bullshit: The Problem of Academic Writing I acually was sitting in front of my laptop for about fifteen minute looking at my notes trying to figure out how I can bullshit my way to my response to this essay. Ironically, this last staement was true from my heart, or was it. This is were I feel this subject becomes such a gray area.



There is nothing cut and dry, black or white when it comes to bullshit. It can be wrong or right, it can be bad or good, it can be words of inspiration or words of deflation. It can end up in books, or in the garbage. It seems it is up to the discretion of the reader to decide what he or she wants to do with it.



How and why bullshit has made its way into academic writing is an interesting phenominon. I feel the first time in the history of man kind someone wrote something down, he or she embelish what they were trying to say.( Embelish is a nice bullshit word)



Writing has alway been an entertaining way to comunicate in a fictional, non fictional, persuasive, or technical way. In some degree writing has always contained bullshit. As writers I dont think it started out as unintentional, but once they realized it entertainment value. bullshit just took off. Even at the cademic level it gets us A's. The more creative and imaginative one writer gets the more bullshit tends to fly.



I don't look at Bullshit being a negative aspect in writing. It definitely adds entertanment value. What we write alway reflects the perception of the reader. It is up to us the reader to decide, take what is written with us and use it, or flush it down the toilet