Beautifully translated by Tami Calliope, the novel remains an astonishing immersion in moral self-delusion.
The idea of moral truth was a delusion, he thought — the fantasy of an "argument that will stop them in their tracks when they come to take you away".
This first novel invents three ordinary Germans -- each representing a different generation and social class -- and traces the evolution in their moral awareness from the delusion of the Nazi years to the denial of guilt after World War II to the decades of national soul-searching that followed.
"Buried" is a horror movie with delusions of moral grandeur.
Despite Willy's delusions and moral evasions, Miller always insisted on the nobility in his struggle.
After all, could not a great moral teacher have messianic delusions?
Many instances of bad judgment, self-delusion and moral cowardice in postwar politics may be rooted in the inability of national leaders and transnational institutions to cope with the lessons that should have been learned from the Holocaust.
From the start, Martin Scorsese makes clear that his movie is about some very bad fellas; he has no delusion about the twisted moral fibre of the characters he films.
But the NRA's delusion exposes not only its moral rot, but also its continual turn from its own history.
At least the Saviors aren't suffering from any sort of delusion about their motivations or their morals.
