On the Nature of Self Deception

Never underestimate the human capacity for flagrant, baldfaced, unapologetic, and even sometimes outright irrational self-deception. For it is often not what truly is in Life, but what people want to believe that most soothes them on otherwise sleepless nights, motivates their harmful actions, and informs and inhabits the ephemeral dreamscape of their own "necessary" lies and self delusions.