1.0 link 177196 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-remington/middle-aged-film-critic-w_b_177196.html In January, film critic David Denby published an essay called Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal and It's Ruining Our Conversation. It's not a perfect book, but he's right. His book is a bit like Harry Frankfurt's popular essay "On Bullshit," which opened with the famous sentence, "One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit." Frankfurt distinguished bullshit from lies, arguing that lies are opposed to truth, while bullshit is unrelated to...

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