Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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Denial. “The capacity to deny,” in the words of James Hillman, “to remain innocent, to use belief as a protection against sophistication of every sort – intellectual, aesthetic, moral, psychological – keeps the American character from Awakening.” #Gaza 4/ fair.org/home/its-aggression-when-they-do-it-but-defense-when-we-do-worse/

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Quoted by@moshik_temkin To see is to see through. Realpolitik, the keeper of the prison, which commands us to be fooled by appearances, to respect the Emperor's New Clothes. The blindness is from the blinkers of decorum. ‘Apocalypsis’ strips away the decent draperies on which the whole big lie depends.Quoted by@ianbremmer @MassimoFaggioli