This active recasting of events, built on the same smaller-bore psychological tools of inattention and passive acknowledgment, is the point at which relationship repair can begin to shade into willful self-deception of the kind that takes on a life of its own.
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The drama isn't one of documentation or its absence; it's one of society at large, and the cruelly convenient self-deceptions on which the failure of national policy and politics depends.
The persistence of this coalition required an immense amount of self-deception on both sides.
The era of globalisation was a time of cant, humbug and self-deception on an enormous scale.
But to interpret the Civil War era as a history of self-deception on a grand scale ends up making that civilization look rather small.
"Lady Sings the Blues" is an exemplary report of the corruption and self-deception on which the country ran, and the constant threat of violence by which racist policies and practices were enforced.
Meanwhile, the work itself risks shifting, and faces the threat of hackdom, of mediocrity, of the compromises and the complacencies, the calculations and the self-deceptions, on which popularity and celebrity depend.
