Heffernan examines the fresh new “amicable alibis” we produce for our own inertia — a similar of those fueling the brand new “backfire perception” which explains why it is so burdensome for me to changes the heads. She produces on the guide:
Whether personal otherwise collective, willful blindness doesn’t have one driver, but many. It is an individual phenomenon that most of us succumb inside the things nothing and large. We can’t see and you may know what you: the brand new intellectual restrictions your attention simply won’t let’s. Which means we should instead filter or modify what we should need when you look at the. Just what exactly we love to help because of and also to exclude is vital. We mostly recognize everything that makes all of us have more confidence on our selves, while you are easily selection almost any unsettles our very own fine egos and more than vital thinking.