The Actual Definition of Bullshit

Now I don't want you to think that I just spew venom all the time about my chosen profession. That is surely not the case. There are good times (or rather have been) from time to time. It's just as of late these have been VERY few and far between.

I entered the Service almost 20 years ago, and I will scream from the highest mountain that IT IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT ARMY than the one I enlisted in years ago. Now one would think that "well if it got so bad why didn't you just get out". To that I say that it was a gradual progression akin to the deteoration of a tendon in your knee. You don't really know that it's actually that bad until its too late to do anything aobut it.

Now with that being said I will get into the meat of this and the reason behind it. When I enlisted many moons ago the leadership had plenty of integrity and bravado. They were REAL men that actually used the concept of "My Word Is My Bond". Now almost 20 years we have what can only be called "promotion through attrition".

Attrition is defined as: 1. a wearing down or weakening of resistance, esp. as a result of continuous pressure or harassment: The enemy surrounded the town and conducted a war of attrition.

3. a gradual reduction in work force without firing of personnel, as when workers resign or retire and are not replaced.

Now the issue is that all of the great leaders that WERE around have since vanished. They left a very select few to carry the torch and because of a flawed promotion system we were left with more "questionable" members that have somehow taken over. The one thing that seems to be a commonality among the "questionables" is their total lack of integrity. That, my friends is the root of all business. If you don't have integrity then you don't have shit. Plain and simple!

Below you will read the actual creed of the BullShitter. This has become the mantra for those that would like to SEEM as if they were smarter then they were. Problem is that I am a very hard person to "baffle". I have been around and seen a lot, therefore it's damn near impossible to pull the wool over my eyes. Also I am a master at bringing individuals from the brink when it seems that they have been hypnotized by the actual BullShit. (Hey that's my job, lol)

So now they have all taken what I consider to be total and utter BullShit to the next level and have somehow gained followers over the years. This is indeed tragic as I can see the actual deteoration of the tendon and unfortunatley it's going to break sooner rather than later.

History of BullShit

Assertions of fact

Bullshit is commonly used to describe statements made by people more concerned with the response of the audience than in truth and accuracy, such as goal-oriented statements made in the field of politics or advertising. On one prominent occasion, the word itself was part of a controversial advertisement. During the 1980 U.S. presidential campaign, the Citizens Party candidate Barry Commoner ran a radio advertisement that began with an actor exclaiming: "Bullshit! Carter, Reagan and Anderson, it's all bullshit!" NBC refused to run the advertisement because of its use of the expletive, but Commoner's campaign successfully appealed to the Federal Communications Commission to allow the advertisement to run unedited.

Distinguished from lying

"Bullshit" does not necessarily have to be a complete fabrication; with only basic knowledge about a topic, bullshit is often used to make the audience believe that one knows far more about the topic by feigning total certainty or making probable predictions. It may also merely be "filler" or nonsense that, by virtue of its style or wording, gives the impression that it actually means something.

In his essay on the subject, William G. Perry called bull[shit] "relevancies, however relevant, without data" and gave a definition of the verb "to bull[shit]" as follows:
To discourse upon the contexts, frames of reference and points of observation which would determine the origin, nature, and meaning of data if one had any. To present evidence of an understanding of form in the hope that the reader may be deceived into supposing a familiarity with content.

The bullshitter generally either knows the statements are likely false, exaggerated, and in other ways misleading or has no interest in their factual accuracy one way or the other. "Talking bullshit" is thus a lesser form of lying, and is likely to elicit a correspondingly weaker emotional response: whereas an obvious liar may be greeted with derision, outrage, or anger, an exponent of bullshit tends to be dismissed with an indifferent sneer.

Now with that I can tell you that apparently they have read, ingested and are putting into practice every part of the BullShit Model. The one thing that the BullShitter is really good at is that he/she (it is not gender specific) does not always actually lie; rather there is a strict omission of the truth at all cost.

So now you know why my subject matter is seemingly bleak. In short and summary. The BullShit artist have taken over the Military Service and are slowly but surely weeding out the ones that will call them on their BullShit.

It is a sad day ineed.

Ratings on this action on the BullShit-o-Meter is............10. (can't be any lower today)

History Of Bullshit cited from Wikipedia 1 Feb 2011