All throughout our lives, we selectively draw on selected shavings of life events and reflect upon them through consciousness, creating an arranged catalogue of senses, faculties, and mental activities that compose our personal life story.
I practiced law for five years and that gives you insight into a certain mind-set that maybe a lot of writers haven__ had firsthand access to. There__ an almost casual cruelty, a very low level of overall awareness, but sometimes there__ also knowledge that real damage is being done__his attitude of __h, what the hell,_ this kind of moral cognitive dissonance. These are people who have never missed a meal. It__ an unknowingness, an unawareness . . . Many people were operating from a very narrow range of experience, and yet they had complete faith in it. Their way was the correct way, the only way. They had virtually no awareness of any other way of life except in terms of demonizing things . . . It__ an extremely blindered experience of the world.
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I practiced law for five years and that gives you insight into a certain mind-set that maybe a lot of writers haven__ had firsthand access to. There__ an almost casual cruelty, a very low level of overall awareness, but sometimes there__ also knowledge that real damage is being done__his attitude of __h, what the hell,_ this kind of moral cognitive dissonance. These are people who have never missed a meal. It__ an unknowingness, an unawareness . . . Many people were operating from a very narrow range of experience, and yet they had complete faith in it. Their way was the correct way, the only way. They had virtually no awareness of any other way of life except in terms of demonizing things . . . It__ an extremely blindered experience of the world.
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