Sentences with phrase «book willful blindness»
Similarly, Margaret Heffernan's very good book Willful Blindness argues we keep quiet «to feel safe, to avoid conflict, to reduce anxiety, and to protect prestige.»
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Heffernan's book gives many examples and references in describing willful blindness as a psychological phenomenon by which human beings, through a series of small decisions made over a period of time, unconsciously choose to perceive a reality that preserves their own interests.
The willful blindness Heffernan describes in her book is at once more complex and more insidious than the straightforward legal principle might suggest.