Sentence examples for widespread delusion from inspiring English sources
The second and far more widespread delusion is that of the neo-liberals and neo-conservatives that we could construct, through force of arms, a democratic and unified Iraqi state in which sectarian divisions would float away in a flood of free enterprise and oil revenue.
While the British in Basra – like the Americans in Baghdad – indulged in widespread acts of self-delusion about progress and democracy, the new Islamist arrivals dominated the new political scene here, and their military wings became the cornerstones of the newly established security forces.
He wrote that the allegations had "provided a fantastic opportunity to advance a social agenda and to keep the distance between the paranoid delusions of widespread racism upon which so many of the careers and the lives of the activists have been built and the rather obvious reality that the overwhelming majority of whites in America are not racist".
The other view insists that there is continuity between delusions and beliefs, and attempts to gather data both suggesting that people with delusions can reason in much the same way as people without, and that delusion-like ideas are widespread in the normal population.
For instance, philosophers ask whether 'delusion' is a natural kind (e.g., Samuels 2009) and whether there is a principled and value-free way to distinguish clinical delusions from delusional ideas that are widespread in normal cognition, such as religious beliefs about divine revelation or paranoid beliefs (e.g., Fulford 2004).
In How Mumbo-Jumbo conquered the world: A Short History of Modern Delusions, published in 2004, Wheen charts the widespread retreat in modern politics and culture from the hard-won achievements of the Age of Enlightenment.
This delusion is, of course, most prevalent among pundits themselves, but it's also widespread among political operatives.
The delusion that we never had good growth until Reagan came along is very widespread on the right; somehow the whole postwar generation, in which everyone's incomes doubled, has been erased from memory.
A widespread critique of the DSM definition is that not enough weight is given to the consequences of having the delusion for the well-being of the person reporting it.
Delusion piled upon delusion.
