Bullshit or Not?: Benjamin Franklin Edition
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Bullshit or Not?: Benjamin Franklin Edition


There's an old sketch film called Amazon Women on the Moon and one of the bits is a parody of the old Leonard Nimoy show, "In Search Of..." called, "Bullshit or Not?" with the tagline "Bullshit or not? You decide." It's a line I like so much that I've stolen it for an irregular series of posts.

Let's continue with the Ben Franklin theme. Here's a sentiment from Franklin,
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Protestant work ethic glamorizing twaddle or Marxist/Hegelian insight?

Bullshit or not? As usual, feel free to leave a one word response or a dissertation.




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