by PHILIP DELVES BROUGHTON
Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril by Margaret Heffernan
Margaret Heffernan, however, makes the convincing case that at a time when we are supposedly better informed than ever, we are guilty of frequent and self-destructive acts of wilful blindness. The freest societies in the world, she writes, are full of blinkered individuals, awed by authority and lacking the guts to laugh at all the naked emperors wandering the streets.
Children are educated to be docile, capitalist slaves, rather than argumentative citizens. And companies are so terrified of the truth that they delude themselves with risk models that end up killing them.
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