self-deception
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Aphorism 18Feb2023
When you are lost in self-doubt, listen for the voice of the Stranger. Continue reading
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Arriving by assistance of the Whole
Most who brag of being self-made—to the point of believing their own rhetoric—sooner or later will find themselves self-unmade. Yet even in this, they will become an unmaking alongside all those of whom they took advantage in Violent Struggle. Continue reading
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Honest Acknowledgment
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately… Continue reading
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Ambition, Self-Promotion, & Military Demagoguery
The series will show how Petraeus was engaged from the beginning of the Iraq war in creating a myth about himself as a commander with unique ability to defeat insurgents, that he knew he had failed in his first two… Continue reading
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