To a large extent, modern pretensions of neutrality reflect a similar self-deception, and modern theorizing about neutrality serves to provide the murkification that permits such deception to flourish.
That is a dangerous illusion, and we must avoid that kind of self-deception.
Secondly, is she aware that there is something worse than deceiving the general public, and that is self-deception?
But some people, owing to ignorance, self-deception, or willful blindness, do not see that this is a task calling for cooperation of an unprecedented kind.
Indeed, psychoanalytic theory suggests that self-deception can work only if there is more than a little truth in the deception.
She concludes that some cases of manic-depressive cycles do count as genuinely successive but that instances of akrasia, self-deception, and religious or ideological conversion do not.
I engage in a kind of self-deception.
It is self-deception to pretend that that is not so.
