It Is Undoubtedly Easier To

We All Need A Bit Of Self-delusion. It Gets Us Over The Difficult Spots.

All The Lessons Of Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work, Indeed Culture, Have Taught Us Over The Last Hundred Years That It Is The Acceptance Of Differences, Not The Search For Similarities Which Enables People To Relate To Each Other In Their Personal Or Family Lives.

Our Belief In Salvation Through The Market Is Very Much In The Utopian Tradition. The Economists And Managers Are The Servants Of God. Like The Medieval Scholastics, Their Only Job Is To Uncover The Divine Plan. They Could Never Create Or Stop It. At Most They Might Aspire To Small Alterations.

Pessimism: A Valuable Protection Against Quackery.

It Is Undoubtedly Easier To Believe In Absolutes, Follow Blindly, Mouth Received Wisdom. But That Is Self-betrayal.