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Poett
poverty
imagination
demeaning
motives
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
Some of the reasons for such activities are sketched in our new book. But what you have is a learned pattern of face-saving self-deception and nefarious (with amusement) techniques, taught by parents to children; so often you pretend to want one thing, and you may say that you “will it” to happen—perhaps because what you really want is unacceptable, or so you have been taught: it is demeaning, or evil, or whatever. So in many cases people’s true motives “escape” them.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
Imagination and will, working together, are miracle-makers, because self-deception does not stand between them.
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
It is in its way perfectly all right to be frightened of the world. (Almost with a laugh:) Under certain conditions it may be a mark of sanity—but it is highly self-defeating to put yourself in a position where you cannot go out into the world—or more importantly, where you cannot navigate as a creature.
[... 22 paragraphs ...]
