Word: myopia
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...frivolous; but when they are used to advertise a well-informed cause, deliver intelligent speeches on why a living wage would not affect employment at Harvard or draw students to pick up leaflets that explain why a living wage will support families, it is stubborn myopia that leads one to see only the fire-eating and not the cause itself...
...Timothy McVeigh believed that because he hated the government everyone else did too, and that any action he took against the government would be in not only his best interest but everyone else's. He took the ordinary human vice of myopia and turned it into the very face of evil. It's a narcissism of colossal proportions. The final indignity is that the man who murdered dozens of children - calling them "collateral damage" -considered smuggling his own sperm out of prison so that he could sire children...
...Chinese censor's eyes, looking for political criticism or social irony in every frame. Of course, what is belligerent folly to the censor is political bravery to us. Some of the festival prizes given to Sixth Generation films seem like citations awarded for valor in the face of institutional myopia, rather than for cinematic achievement. And sometimes, the story behind a Sixth Generation work is more compelling than the story...
Edith Wharton wrote subtly withering novels of privileged folks whose moral myopia appalled her; she screamed in whispers. Lily is an affront to social order--the order of financial and emotional comfort. Her luck turns to ashes when she rejects love (Stoltz) for a betrothal that promises security. She must be reduced to poverty by an upper class tired of her coquetry and unaware of her special heroism in refusing to destroy a rival (Linney...
...Actually, despite our traditional obsession with sports, despite the coercive drumming of pre-Olympics hype, some of us don't care that much about the Olympics. We think we matter for other reasons. We suspect we're on the map already, and that only American myopia would see us otherwise...