(July 26, 2015 at 2:07 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(July 26, 2015 at 3:02 am)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote: I hear, "I'll do my best" a lot. In my experience, it almost always has been a cop-out for the end result of something. You can't blame the person for doing a shitty job at something, because of the, "I did my best" excuse. It drives me nuts, but when I hear someone else say it, I give them the benefit of the doubt that they mean it. In that case, it doesn't bother me.
Bullshit, the stupid idea of perfection in an imperfect world is poison. It leads to unhealthy political views, delusional religious views, and unhealthy man made business disasters like oil spills.
It can also lead to abusive parents shoving their kids into directions they don't want to go even to the point of suicide.
One of my favorite comedians Richard Jenni committed suicide because society sold him a bullshit notion that if he just did it he could be as famous as Jim Carry.
Nobody is advocating doing a shitty job, but all on can do is their best, the math simply is not there for everyone to be on top all at the same time. For most humans, we are lucky to feed ourselves and pay our bills.
Well, you don't know what I live with. This is actually my experience in real life, and I said I don't mind when other people say it and mean it. I, also, don't think that "I'll do my best" means that you have to be perfect, because, as you said, we live in an imperfect world. With the comedian story, it sounds like you're referring more to, someone feeding bullshit to someone, or just not being truthful enough with each other. Which I'm a big advocate of the truth, so, maybe I'm missing your point on what you called bullshit on, but I'll try to respond to it.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
