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- W3149791091 abstract "So wrote Edward Fitzgerald, following (loosely) the Persian of Omar Khayyám. In this quatrain, he captured what may be the most universal and constant yearning of humankind. Modern psychology has shown what many of us always suspected: humans continually, in the secrecy of their thoughts, do exactly what Fitzgerald wished. The external world is all too refractory, but “the soul is free.” Thus, humans often see what they want to see, and believe about it what they wish to believe. The external world may intrude harshly on this process, but people often show a truly instructive ability to shut out reality. Positive illusions are only one of the ways we distort information. The human brain is a wondrous device—partly because it does not produce a perfect, total representation of what the senses perceive. We are constantly reinterpreting those perceptions in terms of our wants and needs—not only needs for things like food and shelter, but also needs to see the world as hopefully as possible, to see it as simple and comprehensible, and to see it as ultimately manageable. The brain quite literally does shatter perception “to bits, and then remold it closer to the heart’s desire.” The world environmental problem is serious, and getting steadily more so. Part of the reason is that humans have seen what they wanted to see and have deliberately blinded themselves to the less desirable consequences of their actions. The built-in human tendency to see the world through rose-colored glasses has received the name “positive illusions” from social psychologist Shelley Taylor. She points out the advantages of positive illusions. They allow us to face a threatening world. However, positive illusions have their costs. It is, at the best of times, hard to get people to sacrifice short-term interests for longterm benefits. Positive illusions make it even harder. Such habits of mind lie behind much of the world’s pollution, species extinction, deforestation, overfishing, soil erosion, and famine. Political remedies have failed. The vaunted Rio de Janeiro conference of 1992 was disappointing." @default.
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- W3149791091 title "Landscape with Figures" @default.
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