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Your Call Is Important To Us: The Truth About Bullshit
Your Call Is Important To Us The Truth About Bullshit Author:Laura Penny There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin. — The platinudinous pabulum that passes for stirring political rhetoric is bullshit.... The committee-crafted persona and the focus-grouped fad and the rule of the polls are straight-up bullshit. The disease hysteria du jour is bullshit, and so is the latest miracle pill. The new p... more »roduct that will change your life is probably just more cheap, plastic bullshit.
"Your call is important to us" has been chosen from a very deep reservoir of bullshit phrases for the title of this book because it best exemplifies the properties native to bullshit. It tries to slather some nice on the result of a simple ratio: your time versus some company's dough. Like most bullshit, the more times you hear it, the bullshittier it gets. This is why bullshit is best served quickly, with many visuals, in mass quantities, with no questions from the floor.« less