I write about narcissism being out of balance in our culture. And yet the devil I write about is at least partly the devil in me. We shouldn't dissociate ourselves from the people and the transgressions we point fingers at when we are are at least partly practising them ourselves.
Hypocrisy is not admitting our contradictions - our bi-polarities -- or even worse, not seeing them. Contradictions abound in human nature, and hypocrisy abounds in people who cannot or will not see and/or admit their contradictions, and their ethical transgressions from these contradictions.
In Gestalt Therapy, they used to say you can't - or won't - change until you first know and accept who you are now.
But in the mean time, even if we are not prepared to change, we can all work harder at not throwing stones if and/or when we live in glass houses.
- dgb, July 20th, modified, July 26th, 2008.
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