"The proper question is: How can we ourselves overcome our natural tendency to evade and self-deceive. That was the proper question after Abu Ghraib, Madoff, the Wall Street follies and a thousand other scandals. But it’s a question this society has a hard time asking because the most seductive evasion is the one that leads us to deny the underside of our own nature."
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David Brooks, “Let’s All Feel Superior”
I am wary of some part of the broader message in this op-ed, but this quote rung true.
