I’m so glad I’m rational and even-handed in all matters, able to view life with a cool dispassion that sees things as they truly are.
You too? That’s what I thought!
But all those others—you know, everyone who’s not you and me, with their roiling passions and fears and distempers, their emotional roller coasters, their tendency to be swayed by unconscious motives, ideologies and unmet emotional needs—God save us from them, yes?
Oh wait, the wiseguy Pogo had something to say about that, didn’t he: “We have met the enemy—and he is us.”
Damn!
Harvesting the fruits of enough introspection and self-knowledge to sidestep the most egregious aspects of irrationality can be a heady but fearsome thing. It’s a lifelong task to step outside yourself, gather feedback from others, behold the mirror of your endowments, your motives, your healed-over scars and still open wounds, not to mention your aging brain.
Merely to think clearly—and to do so consistently, amidst th...
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