Numbers of people use "bullshit" as a way of describing narratives that they disagree with in a rather pejorative way. I would suggest that, as Yuval Harari points out in 'Sapiens', that myths / narratives, with no tangible substance in the real world, were what allowed us to form ever larger groupings - from tribes to villages to towns to citties to nations to a global 'civilization'. The side effect of all these groupings was the technology and comforts we enjoy these days. So, one way of phrasing this is that bullshit is the manure that fertilized our development to our current state of existence with our capabilities to reach the moon, mars, and beyond. In that sense, the value of bullshit is immeasurable.
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