I've been busy as hell personally and professionally lately and have not had time to even peruse the posts each day. However, a colleague just sent me this academic article (truly), and I thought it was a good deconstruction of some of the cheese in the trap of $cientology. To wit:
Whereas philosophers have been primarily concerned with the goals and intentions of the bullshitter, we are interested in the factors that predispose one to become or to resist becoming a bullshittee.
and
Put differently, some individuals may have an excessively “open” mind that biases them to make inflated judgments of profundity, regardless
of the content.
The second mechanism relates to a potential inability to detect bullshit, which may cause one to confuse vagueness for profundity. In the words of Sperber (2010): “All too often, what readers do is judge profound what they have failed to grasp” (p. 583).
On Bullshit
Whereas philosophers have been primarily concerned with the goals and intentions of the bullshitter, we are interested in the factors that predispose one to become or to resist becoming a bullshittee.
and
Put differently, some individuals may have an excessively “open” mind that biases them to make inflated judgments of profundity, regardless
of the content.
The second mechanism relates to a potential inability to detect bullshit, which may cause one to confuse vagueness for profundity. In the words of Sperber (2010): “All too often, what readers do is judge profound what they have failed to grasp” (p. 583).
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