Sentence examples for fundamental delusion from inspiring English sources

In his 1980 book, "The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion," Melvin Lerner, a social psychologist, argued that people want to believe in the inherent justice of the economic system in which they live, and want to believe that people who appear to be suffering are in fact responsible for their own situations.

In simultaneously seeking to assert a classically Liberal identity for his party while pledging his continued allegiance to the coalition project, Nick Clegg unwittingly exposes the fundamental delusion that underpins Liberal Democrat thinking: the fantasy that a compassionate and enabling social order can be built on the foundations of long-discredited rightwing economics.

In an age in which not just fantasy sports, but fantasy sports analysis and fantasy sports supplies are cottage industries, the fundamental delusion of the fan is control.

It will revive your hope in contemporary fiction, and make you convinced again that the novel at its best has no competition in making sense of our world--which seems so complicated, but is still driven by the same fundamental delusions novelists have been exposing since Cervantes and Swift.

The fundamental consumerist delusion, as he calls it, is that purchases affect the way we're treated.

This, he writes, is "the fundamental consumerist delusion – that other people care more about the artificial products you display through consumerist spending than about the natural traits you display through normal conversation, cooperation, and cuddles".

It is that he has discovered murder to be a form of self-realization — that it has been revealed to him that all the brave ideals of civilized life, including those of Communist ideology, are sentimental delusions, and the fundamental expression of the instinct of being is killing.

Thus, this scientific meeting exposed, for the first time, the delusions of thermonuclear war and foresaw the fundamental flaw in the military philosophy of "mutually assured destruction".

Everything he taught was predicated on one fundamental proposal: we are unable to shake off our chains of delusion, and cannot free ourselves from our blind passions.

And there's a more fundamental problem, described by the Danish researcher Jørgen S. Nørgård, who has called energy decoupling "largely a statistical delusion".

"There needs to be a fundamental shift in what it means to be Pakistani," said Husain Haqqani, author of Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding at a SAI Book Talk on Monday, March 10 , 2014