Ideologies like religion and nationalism are nothing more than self-deception.
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She writes about power, moral choice, self-deception, bravery and cowardice.
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Yet Melissa, too, is skilled in the art of self-deception.
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"All of these are different forms of self-deception," Mikhashenok wrote.
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But unfortunately this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity.
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And this was a season in need of that kind of self-deception.
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But he also really digs deep into the idea of deception and self-deception.
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It strips away what we often call nuance, but more often is self-deception.
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"There must be self-deception in order to produce a great effect," Nietzsche wrote.
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Gamergaters chalked up the movement's grievances over ethical journalism to confusion or self-deception.
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Like a mask has been lifted, the fog has cleared, the self deception breaks.
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There's a lot of self-deception, which goes into working on a project like this.
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"[This song] is about self deception," says Nate Terepka, who does vocals on this track.
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It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
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Is the open and vulnerable comedian trope just a form of manipulation and self-deception?
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But the human capacity for self-deception — the ultimate self-credulity — is also unfettered, unlimited.
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Is the impulse behind this a kind of purism or a kind of self-deception?
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To proceed otherwise is to perpetuate the "fantasy of self-deception" that Dr. King rejected.
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It's possible, Nikolai notes, that he inherited his self-deception and his willpower from her.
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The persistence of this coalition required an immense amount of self-deception on both sides.
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" Indeed, says Levada, he even "requires self-deception for the sake of his own self-preservation.
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"There's even less room for self-deception if there's two people in the room," he said.
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That included what he called the self-deception, validated by science, that alcoholics cannot help themselves.
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"Will self-deception and smearing China help with epidemic response?" spokeswoman Hua asked on Twitter Sunday.
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I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception — those are my favorites.
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" Elsewhere we read of Freud indulging his "yen for borrowed power," and exhibiting "madcap self-deception.
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In short, the history of white Americans' attitudes toward race has always been one of self-deception.
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French's intense interest in identity and self-deception might make this a slow-building book for some.
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What first seems like an honest confession turns out to be a brilliant act of self-deception.
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"The terrible art of the candidate is to coddle the self-deception of the stooge," Johnson wrote.
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Such self-deception involves, among other things, the expression of values that we are unwilling to acknowledge.
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China, like North Korea and other authoritarian regimes, has a penchant for brutality, lies and self-deception.
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Polk's willful self-deception is linked to her ability to wield power while denying she possessed it.
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The audio is vivid and stark and cuts through that fog of wishful thinking and self-deception.
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It seems that a fair amount of aspirational self-deception, terminological inexactitude or simple hypocrisy is at play.
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The system leaves no room for one of the most basic human capacities, the capacity for self-deception.
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He aced that, too, meaning that he's either a phenomenally talented actor or a master of self-deception.
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Admitting wrongdoing and seeking forgiveness weren't Wittgenstein's main concerns; his concerns were escaping self-deception and changing himself.
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There are also a lot of warnings: about a "celebrity-in-chief," about lies and willful self-deception.
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Because it's all about self-deception — you aren't aware that it's going to cost you, but you are.
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When there's no more self-deception and you face yourself, you either shit or get off the pot.
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That rush of discovery and possibility — being young in New York — is entwined with displacement, disconnection and self-deception.
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To conjure the performance of blackface, whites had to engage in a magical trick that involved profound self-deception.
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It is not surprising, then, that he saw the act of confession as a way of escaping self-deception.
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Pascal seems to concede that trying to believe is a matter of wishful thinking, self-deception or self-manipulation.
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It's a type of self-deception, they explain, where we slowly convince ourselves the immoral behavior isn't all that bad.
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Here we find courage, pettiness, self-deception, love, profundity, triviality, sadness, joy, munificence, greed, theatricality, restraint, wit, pomposity, despair, hope.
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I haven't seen this hopeful self-deception since Neville Chamberlain's return from Germany with his "peace in our time" document.
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Morality, physics, theology, self-deception and grace pass between them, in halting verbosity and these friezes of guilt and incrimination.
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In this scenario Francis would be guilty of self-deception and incuriosity but not as nakedly culpable as Viganò implies.
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And there are costs to that self-deception, including—as the flip-side of American exceptionalism—isolation in sport and otherwise.
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"Deception (and this includes self-deception) can be at a high, depending on the energy we are working with," Stardust says.
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Self-deception, delusion, lying, crazy thinking, a little bit of the [idea of the] four turnings are all here [in Bannon].
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More From Tonic: In fact, "some psychologists concede that an element of self-deception may be necessary for well-being," Feltham says.
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Homeopathy is "a stubbornly surviving belief system", they argue, which "cannot explain itself" and relies on "self-deception" by patients and therapists.
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One of the things the theater should be doing today, and rarely does, is lancing the boil of our own self-deception.
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White America, white people, lived in a profound form of what Sartre called "bad faith" — a state of inauthenticity and self-deception.
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There is an Orwellian self-deception in the idea that "assisted dying" is a safe, healthy way of dying compared to "violent" suicide.
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The history told by Memphis's monuments has been truthful in only one respect: it records the white elite's own self-deception and denial.
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Among his other books are "The Self in Transformation" (1963), "Self-Deception" (1969), "The Meaning of Criminal Insanity" (1972) and "Mapping Responsibility" (2004).
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This involved the two criteria he saw as the means of escaping self-deception: courage and the askesis such an experience could precipitate.
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Clarissa's and Lovelace's letters to their respective confidants are as probing as any therapy session, and as riddled with defensiveness and self-deception.
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A driving idea in "Leadership and Self-Deception" is that people can create false narratives that can keep them from realizing their own potential.
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There's nothing wrong with either of these approaches, but the Hughes-Foer TNR renaissance was fundamentally an exercise in mutual deception and self-deception.
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Evolutionary psychologists teach us that lies, self-deception and hypocrisy are essential to ordinary psychological well-being and the survival of the human species.
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The second self-deception is that Hicks—who has a perpetually frightened look and the charisma of a fish—looks anything like Harry at all.
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But this system can be easily manipulated by those who don't have his best interests in mind, and it opens him up to self-deception.
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Oxford University Press, 2018 The eponymous elephant in the brain is essentially our self-deception and hidden motivations regarding the actions we take in everyday life.
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This self-deception is also refracted in the kidnapper, who has so many personalities warring within him that it's basically impossible for him to know himself.
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I found myself buying the series in order, one by one, via Amazon Prime, with the self-deception of someone scoring loose cigarettes at the bodega.
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We can handle stumbles, presidential ineptitude, bungling, arrogance, presidential self-deception, poorly planned presidential executive orders, insults to world leaders and the desecration of American values.
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Any politician who thinks that promoting this bill is in any way consistent with being pro-life has a capacity for self-deception that is truly phenomenal.
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For "The Nap" is also a comedy of deception, including self-deception, and the sort of willful, hilarious misunderstandings that have always been a basis for slapstick.
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Part meticulous animatronic puppet, part extremely inspired lighting and editing, Baby Yoda is a true magic trick that engages our hearts, minds, and capacity for self-deception.
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O'Casey, a luminary of the Anglo-Irish renaissance, was a satiro-comic writer with a big-time dark side and an enduring faith in human self-deception.
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If critics occasionally found his plots strained or his characters thinly drawn, they were also gripped by his narrators' wit and his characters' capacity for self-deception.
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In his book "Good to Great," he notes that self-deception may help you overcome short-term discomfort or embarrassment, but will ultimately come back to haunt you.
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The book, "Leadership and Self-Deception, " is important, in part, because it outlines two key ways people and teams hold themselves back every day without even realizing it, says Butterfield.
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It's not until the climactic final moments that he realizes, to his shock but not to ours, that this morally bankrupt approach has been built on self-deception all along.
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She was bold in her description of the lying, deception, self-deception, image-making and the attempt of those in power to destroy the very distinction between truth and falsehood.
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In that book he dismissed the possibility of reincarnation, but, perhaps in his own rendition of self-deception, he seemed to suggest that he might achieve some measure of immortality.
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And if Harvey's album suggests the insularity and self-deception that was shaken by the horrors and scope of the First World War, is she entirely in on the joke?
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Terror Management suggests that human nature is actually wired towards self-deception: In order to avoid facing terrifying concepts like death, most of us live in a state of self-delusion.
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Such painstaking self-deception is worth noting here because Edith, editor of a small radical journal, is also a leftist with ideas about how the United States might rectify its conduct abroad.
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He considers everything from economic theory to transhumanism to a litany of cognitive biases ("We can't see anything but through cataracts of self-deception") to try to better understand this warming world.
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" Rhees writes that Wittgenstein expressed in various letters and personal notes that he wanted to be "rid of self-deception regarding his own failings and in this way lead a different life.
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Is it possible that Dustin, with his long habit of self-deception, has invented his as well, to mask his guilt over Rusty's incarceration even if there was plenty to justify it?
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The only explanation I could come up with is that, to be a career criminal, you either have to be a master of self-deception, or genuinely just not give a fuck.
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He wrote of the arrogance and self-aggrandizement of the colonizers, yet exposed the self-deception and ethical ambiguities of the liberation movements that swept across Africa and the Caribbean in their wake.
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But it would require a large dose of self-deception (or conspiracy theorizing) to pretend that Iran isn't the likely culprit, or that its actions don't represent a major escalation in the region.
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But the self-deception common to Shyamalan's characters is here, too; Casey has to find the truth about herself and discover her own agency through the fog of trauma in order to stay alive.
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Remove this immense capacity for bullshit and self-deception from the party's political arsenal—or at least render it ineffective—and it's hard to envision what mobilization tools (and thus what policies) would replace it.
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Suddenly, it's not a scene about Cliff being able to best Lee but one about his own self-deception regarding the ways his career has grounded itself on the shoals of changing tastes in Hollywood.
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"Man, I'm just born to be in it," Mr. O'Rourke said, infamously, in a March cover interview with Vanity Fair, which, with the benefit of hindsight, sounds less like a boast than a bit of self-deception.
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He is the logical conclusion of what the Republican Party became over the last fifty or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race, self-deception, and anger that became the essence of the Republican Party.
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" Her home is a "concrete cube with a lot of glass" because "if you have no desire to indulge in any self-deception about the times you live in, then polished concrete is exactly what you can still love.
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This view is based on self-deception on the part of Western elites who are interested in maintaining confrontation with Russia as a distraction from more important, painful problems at home, like migration, industrial decline and anger over globalization.
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I am reminded that the West was, among other things, the South's attempt at a second act in American life, with all of the continuity and disjunction, the striving and scheming, the reinvention and self-deception that that implies.
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So while the music might support any number of individual political awakenings, Algiers are a band that is well aware that America did not newly become an imperialist power, built on slavery and self-deception, with the election of Trump.
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At this point, you could explore that feeling and determine whether it was based solely on self-deception about personal worth, or if it was rooted in actual poor performance that has come from a lack of effort or inspiration.
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Like the Arbinger Institute's "Leadership and Self-Deception," what makes "A Paperboy's Fable" a worthwhile read is its ability to take high-level and timeless business lessons and make them both easy to understand for beginners and poignant reminders for us more seasoned entrepreneurs.
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Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, has lately been moving so fast that it is becoming difficult to keep track of the intricate levels of deception, and self-deception, described in the indictments that he brings.
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How to see our world in a new light Peper gets at the core message of this story, but frankly, self-deception isn't easy (as any less-than-perfectly-confident startup founder who has attempted to persuade investors about their product can tell you).
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That self-deception is critical, since it lowers the cost of demonstrating our prosocial bona fides: we would be heavily cognitively taxed if we had to constantly pretend as if we cared about the environment when what we really care about is being perceived as an ethical consumer.
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Photo: Getty Images / Siegfried Kaiser / EyeEm Photo: Getty Images / Siegfried Kaiser / EyeEm Talking about humans acting badly, I wrote a review over the weekend of The Elephant in the Brain, a book about how we use self-deception to ascribe better motives to our actions than our true intentions.
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This book makes a claim — that I think is reasonable — that self-deception is the key ingredient — we can't handle the cognitive load of lying all the time, so evolution has adapted us to handle lying with greater facility by not allowing us to realize that we are doing it.
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In this #MeToo moment, when there is renewed interest in (read: confusion about) how to separate the life from the work, there is a welcome matter-of-factness in Holt's approach, a refreshing acknowledgment of how the two seep into each other, an awareness for our propensity for self-deception.
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For years, the European Union has suffered from a crisis of underperformance, pushed low by two forms of convenient self-deception: first, the blatant egoism when it comes to international challenges like refugee management and foreign policy; and second, an all too lighthearted approach when it comes to national matters like economic reform.
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All that said, anyone genuinely surprised to hear this kind of thing from Trump when you already know that he'd cozied up with Roger Ailes — after Ailes got booted from Fox News for treating the cable network as his own personal non-consensual harem —was clearly practicing a fair degree of self-deception.
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Just as a human infant first learns that its hand belongs to the rest of itself, that other beings exist with their own brains and thoughts, and eventually that Juan thinks Sue thinks Mary has a crush on Jane, this self-conscious machine would build toward human-like levels of mind-guessing and self-deception.
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Or even to some extent the way of Donald Trump, who is white and technically a Protestant but not, not any kind of WASP, combining instead the worst of meritocratic self-deception (the rich kid with a Wharton degree posturing as a self-made man) and the worst of the populist reaction that it summons up.
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"They truly ignored the negative trend in perception and lived in a bubble of self-deception, either not caring or not grasping how many people were turned off by the uses of drugs and the sight of riders hitting horses with whips," said Whiteley, who sold his horses in 2000, unable to weather the financial crisis.
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At one point, video effects turned Bono into his demonic alter ego from the 1990s, MacPhisto, who cackled, "When you don't believe that I exist, that's when I do my best work"; it was the lead-in to "Acrobat," a song about self-deception and hypocrisy from U2's 1991 masterpiece, "Achtung Baby," that it hadn't previously performed in concert.
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