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Perhaps we should not be surprised that Trump has now taken a sledgehammer to it: systemic awareness has proved to be a major blind spot for the “Artist of the Deal,” whose worldview can be summed up in three words: quid pro quo.
Among the French of 1835, however, “the doctrine of self-interest” had produced “egotism…no less blind.”
Pride and a lack of imagination blind them to the danger they are in, until it is too late and they are deported to the death camps.
The second US blind spot is the politicization of this terrible affront.
The third blind spot is almost too painful to bear having to address – which, on a charitable interpretation, might explain why not one mainstream US media report has done so: the burnings were not carried out on some street in Kabul, but at Bagram.
The blind pursuit of good governance has guided development efforts for too long.
Round-Trip FreedomNEW YORK – Western media describe my friend and colleague Chen Guangcheng as a blind activist who made a flight to freedom when China allowed him to journey from Beijing to the United States.
Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer – famous for exposing a forced abortion scandal in Shandong – was given a four-year jail term on the dubious charge of “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
And yet China seems to turn a blind eye to it all.
(To some outside the US, it is an assumption that sometimes looks a lot like blind faith.)
Rather than blind hope, foresight based on knowledge and experience should govern how we manage the future of this technology and our relationship with it.
This realization does not mean that Europe should turn a blind eye to the nature of Lukashenko’s regime.
One of the most important arguments against a market economy is that markets are blind to justice and social demands.
A market process is blind to the nominative evaluation of market results.
The US turned a blind eye to Turkey’s recent invasion and occupation of the Kurdish-held city of Afrin in northwest Syria, which led to the slaughter of more than 1,000 Kurds, including scores of civilians.
The stunning opacity of solvency ratios encouraged regulators to turn a blind eye to banks’ excessive risk-taking.
Energy companies have long been known to make false statements about climate change intentionally, just as mining companies and manufacturing firms, whether in clothing or tech, have persistently turned a blind eye to terrible, even abusive, conditions faced by their workers.
Because the Rohingya’s persecutors, by restricting access to journalists and photographers, have denied their victims a face, and because the Rohingya are Muslims at a bad time to be Muslim, nearly the entire world is turning a blind eye.
And then there is the Penn State scandal, in which the university’s trustees turned a blind eye to a long-running cover-up of the serial pedophilia of Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach who gained access to his victims through his own charity for troubled youth.
The IMF’s blind spot in dealing with Europe until now is only partly due to European voting power.
Three billion people depend on rice as their staple food, with 10% at risk for vitamin A deficiency, which, according to the World Health Organization, causes 250,000-500,000 children to go blind each year.
So Xi stopped turning a blind eye to corruption.
Other foreign investors stayed away, because Shevardnadze turned a blind eye to corruption.
Indeed, congenitally blind persons gesture--even while speaking with people they know to be blind as well!
But turning a blind eye is shortsighted, for America and for the Saudis.
The deeper America sank into the Iraqi quagmire, the more the US began to turn a blind eye to the region’s surviving dictators, particularly those in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and Pakistan.
The ECB’s policymakers are not blind, merely shortsighted.
Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction – in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.
“What really frustrates us,” he commented, “is to be commissioned by a pharmaceutical company to design an early-phase trial when we know already that it is going up a blind alley.
And the reason we know that is that we’ve been up the blind alley with another company; but that experience remains unreported for commercial reasons.”
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