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Monday, October 11, 2004
People of the Lie
People of the Lie M. Scott Peck
Considering that the book was written in 1983, there were several passages that I found particularly striking.
When it no longer bothers us to see mangled bodies it will no longer bother us to mangle them ourselves. It is difficult indeed to selectively close our eyes to a certain type of brutality without closing them to all brutality. How can we render ourselves insensitive to brutality except by becoming brutes?
