Source: CMU website, Nov 1969
Related Reading: PhD blog, Aug 2011
This extract from Bullshit and the Art of Crap-Detection* – a paper delivered at the National Convention for the Teachers of English, Washington D C in 1969 – is typical Postman. In fact, Eichmannism represents one of many forms of bullshit. Others he suggests include:
- Pomposity – the use of “fancy titles, words, phrases, and sentences,” usually employed to hide insufficiencies
- Fanaticism – a malignant form of bullshit that at its worse is manifest as bigotry
- Inanity – public utterances from “people whose opinions would otherwise not be solicited,” increasingly amplified through the development of mass media
- Superstition – “a belief, usually expressed in authoritative terms for which there is no factual or scientific basis”
Delightful & Distinctive COLRS 
“There are plenty of people who are daily victimised by pomposity in that they are made to feel less worthy than they have the right to feel by people who use fancy titles, words, phrases, and sentences to obscure their own insufficiencies”
Thank you for your simple and clear insight!