It is inherent in the mentality of extramuros bulshytt-talkers that they are more prone than anyone else to taking offense {or pretending to} when their bulshytt is pointed out to them. This places the mathic observer in a nearly impossible position. One is forced either to use this "offensive" word and be deemed a disagreeable person and as such excluded from polite discourse, or to say the same thing in a different way, which means becoming a purveyor of bulshytt oneself and thereby lending strength to what one is trying to attack. The latter quality probably explains the uncanny stability and resiliency of bulshytt.
( Neal Stephenson )
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