As complex as life can appear to be, it is a very simple affair and is rendered complex or simple, based on a single dynamic and that is... (trumpet fanfare, accompanied by a rising chorus of Tympani and Taiko drums) WHETHER YOU HAVE DECIDED TO LIE TO YOURSELF OR NOT.
There could be several reasons why you have decided to lie to yourself. One of the reasons is that there is something, or a number of somethings that you want and you are not convinced that you are permitted to have them/it, or you are not likely to get them/it, unless you strategize to that end. Hence... you get 'justifications' and/or 'rationalizations', accompanied by internal and external arguments, employing the acts of justifying or rationalizing.
Our main problem, which attends justifying and rationalizing, the adversary who stands in our way is (more horns, Tympani's and Taiko's) our Conscience. Mark Twain had a lot to say on the matter of our conscience. I remember a short story by him; at least I think I do, in which he murdered his conscience but I can't locate where it was that I saw it; if it was a short story, or an essay... can't remember.
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