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‘His political enemies have not served the main course yet. That is why, for his strategists, attack is the best defence’
South African politics is full of bulls**t. In 2005, Harry Frankfurt, a Princeton University philosopher, wrote a book, On Bulls**t, in which he sought to define the term. Frankfurt says: "Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bulls**tter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. "He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bulls**t is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."
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