Granfalloons and Cognotypes
I cannot but accept Vonnegut’s definition of a karass, not least because as its inventor, he gets to define it. I am free, however, to recognize other groupings – groupings aside from the karass – that like the karass do not qualify as granfalloons. I found just such an array of groupings when I read Chapter 5 of Snakes in Suits by Babiak and Hare (2006), in which the authors recount the results of their informal observations of people’s reactions to fraudsters they likened to the phony evangelist Elmer Gantry in the 1960 movie starring Burt Lancaster.