You have to believe the indebted will be suffering at the hands of their own stupidity to push such an agenda, I don't subscribe to this philosophy, the public were sold a "good life" delusion of ever increasing wealth based on value not hard cash and they fell for it.
These good-nature delusions may have given some protection from the outside world when the injured person was unable to deal with all the terrible facts.
But when, in the following years, the Federal Reserve chairman, Paul Volcker, finally crushed inflation, enabling a solid economic rebound, the new tax-cutters not only claimed victory for their supply-side strategy but hooked Republicans for good on the delusion that the economy will outgrow the deficit if plied with enough tax cuts.
This is what I mean by the display of good taste: the delusion that, in the shifting, debatable, inherently contentious and in many ways inherently ridiculous art of today, you can pinpoint stable and admirable figures to safely and sedately admire.
Good and evil, delusion and enlightenment, Buddhahood and deviltry, are all "inherently entailed" in each and every event.
It's a pretty good fable about delusion.
When I replied that I thought between 10 and 15 million people knew, the psychiatrist asked me a supplementary question in a tone which was kind, if not clinical: "Have you ever suffered from delusions?" Prison is a good place for shedding delusions.
We knew each other too well at that point to think anything could change – six years in, you know what you're getting, and if that isn't good enough, then the delusion required to stay together is just too monumental; or at least it was for us.
We knew each other too well at that point to think anything could change six years in, you know what you're getting, and if that isn't good enough, then the delusion required to stay together is just too monumental; or at least it was for us.
