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Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the reality, a concept not as apparent as some might expect.
Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem to be much more powerful than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some individuals (professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true" and "false" as meaningful categories, and even those who claim to love truth cause ordinary people to wonder if they, too, aren't simply packed with it. Practically speaking, many of us deploy the reality only when absolutely necessary, often finding alternatives to be more saleable, yet somehow civilization seems to be muddling along. But where are we headed? Is our without headaches way with the facts actually crippling us? Or could it be "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 adopt another go through the truth: there could be something there that is perhaps too plain to note but also for which we've 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?"
