Tuesday the monthly Poetry Santa Cruz event, Ellen Bass at Bookshop SC. Wow! No seats left when I got there. What an appreciative crowd! I suspect that everybody in the audience has taken a class/workshop with her at one point or another. I have to admit, though, she is good!Tonight I'll take an extended bike ride past Pleasure Point out to Capitola for:
Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (Harcourt)
"Why do people dodge responsibility? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Do we really believe the stories we tell? UCSC Professor Emeritus Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris, both renowned social psychologists, take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, our feelings of self-worth are jarred, so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right—a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong. Delivered in lively prose, this work offers a fascinating explanation of self-deception."
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