Key Issues

Bullshitting

Survival mechanism, malicious equivocation, or blind confidence?

Well that all depends, does it not? On whether you're faking your way through an essay test, selling a piece of prime swamp river front property*, or leading a group of classmates through the woods at age 8 and allaying their city-slicker fears of being lost by convincing them that you know exactly where you are going. Heh...

Not that I would do any of those things.

But the last scenario I find most interesting. Perhaps because it is the most flattering of the three, perhaps because it is evidence of an apparent ambivalence that existed in my pre-pubescent psyche. Somehow, I was both socially inept and full of myself.

And if only Al Gore had gotten off of his ass and invented the internet a few years earlier, I would have known then what I know now... I wasn't a freak, just part of an elite, attention-seeking, epicurean fraction of society who would one day be known as bloggers.

(*Disclaimer: This particular purchaser not only wanted the swampland, but he has my url, so it was actually a poor example. Hey, like I'd share do anything unethical!)