LIFE SKILLS | SOCIOLOGY
How I Use the “Chicken Little” Method of Liar Management
Today’s phony ‘sky-falling’ fibs require detection, deflection and disposal
Quick! Grab your BS detector and load the “Pants on Fire” app as soon as possible. Wait, no such thing exists. Damn it!
I’ve often wondered why there aren’t more tech venture capitalists investing money into the artsy-science of BS detection. It seems all the effort and attention are on the BS manufacturing side of the house.
Envision an app to download that allows your yet-to-be-invented hand-held BS detector to pick off lies as they come out of someone’s mouth. Wow, would that be worth the subscription? There’s probably a lot of not-so-shiny sales people who just read that and quivered. No worries. No heads will be exploding today…but, tick tock. And you App Developers, get on that.
Recent observations of certain people’s uncanny production of lies, and those who eat them up, leave me utterly gobsmacked. I’ve never had a reason to use that word before, but there it is.
This phenomenon made me wonder about how I learned to decipher BS, which nestles hand-in-hand with my easily poked, over-the-top sense of justice. What is my origin story? How did I develop my…
