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The Value of Nonsense

“Some people are very good at sounding sophisticated and intellectual while saying nothing of substance. Do you get fooled?”
– Katherine Brodsky, author and journalist


The following may be counterintuitive, but it is nevertheless true: There can be a great deal of value to be found in verbiage that exists for its own sake, or at least appears to.

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It’s… Complicated.

We all know by now that there’s a difference between the news we see on TV and the actual truth of the matter.

And yet, when we discover that the truth isn’t quite what we thought it was, we’re always surprised, often to the point where we’ll resist the new information.

Each of the startling statements in the following list contains some truth; some are even (more…)