{"id":9563,"date":"2019-04-17T20:35:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=9563"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:52:05","slug":"bookmarked-bullshit-and-the-art-of-crap-detection-by-neil-postman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/bookmarked-bullshit-and-the-art-of-crap-detection-by-neil-postman\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarked: \u201cBullshit and the Art of Crap -Detection\u201d by Neil Postman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found in this tweet by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkRPriestley\/status\/1118411978274430976\">@MarkRPriestley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My link is to a pdf of the talk from 1969. Now seem broken so <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190112221016if_\/http:\/\/media.usm.maine.edu\/~lenny\/Bullshit\/crap_detection.pdf\">archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Postman also wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/kairosschool.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Teaching-as-a-Subversive-Activity.pdf\">\u200ekairosschool.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Teaching-as-a-Subversive-Activity.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A good fun read with many cringe points, which of the forms of BS have you used? I&#8217;ve used a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found in this tweet by @MarkRPriestley. My link is to a pdf of the talk from 1969. Now seem broken so archive.org Postman also wrote \u200ekairosschool.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Teaching-as-a-Subversive-Activity.pdf. A good fun read with many cringe points, which of the forms of BS have you used? I&#8217;ve used a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[409,660,6],"tags":[],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-9563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-enviable-stuff","7":"category-micro","8":"category-wwwd","9":"post_format-post-format-status","10":"kind-bookmark","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry","14":"post-kind"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-2uf","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14493,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions\/14493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}