Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G.
Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not
as obvious as some might expect.
Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our
apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people
(professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true" and "false"
as meaningful categories, and even those who claim to love truth
cause the rest of us to wonder whether they, too, aren't simply
full of it. Practically speaking, many of us deploy the truth only
when absolutely necessary, often finding alternatives to be more
saleable, and yet somehow civilization seems to be muddling along.
But where are we headed? Is our fast and easy way with the facts
actually crippling us? Or is it "all good"? Really, what's the use
of truth, anyway?
With the same leavening wit and commonsense wisdom that animates
his pathbreaking work "On Bullshit," Frankfurt encourages us to
take another look at the truth: there may be something there that
is perhaps too plain to notice but for which we have a mostly
unacknowledged yet deep-seated passion. His book will have sentient
beings across America asking, "The truth--why didn't I think of
that?"
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