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The liberal faith in reason is an 18th century illusion: reason is inherently fallible and must be supported, or even supplanted, by norms flowing from tradition, religion, family, etc.
For a day, or sometimes only for a few hours, traders succumb to the illusion of stability, fueling a euphoric but ephemeral financial-market rally.
But it is a mirage – an illusion caused by falling prices.
Such decoupling can occur only if we do away with the illusion that pollution is cost-free.
Doing away with this illusion requires the creation of a global emissions market – still a very distant goal.
The second illusion that blinkers many Germans is that other European governments are after their money.
Germany’s third illusion is that the current crisis is ultimately a euro crisis.
A common bond would be no cure for a lack of fiscal discipline; on the contrary, it would be no more than a placebo for a “weak” country, but it would also be harmful because it would foster the illusion that it is possible to get out of fiscal difficulty without undertaking fundamental reform.
In short, the new regulatory philosophy replaces the illusion that banks can safely be left to manage their risks with the illusion that regulators will do it for them.
Relentless government borrowing and high payroll taxes (employer-paid social security) have long sustained citizens’ illusion that they are getting something for nothing, while perpetuating successive governments’ misconception that taxing business is a painless way of financing welfare and public services.
The refusal to resume dialogue had stopped producing any fresh results, and the only argument that justified it – that it was a source of leverage – gave some in India the illusion of influence over events that the government did not in fact possess.
But that, we now know, was an illusion.
When I recall these events after 40 years, I see not only revolt, but also the great illusion that it might be possible to outfox the Kremlin and painlessly move society from communism to democracy.
The Snowden affair has blown up any illusion about trust between leaders – and also about leaders’ competence.
The error is called the “money illusion ” – the belief that a nominal unit of currency is the best measure of value, even though its real value is unstable.
This failure can be explained only by the money illusion, which ultimately is connected with what psychologists call “framing.”
The money illusion occurs because we are accustomed to economic values almost always being framed in terms of money.
For years, I have been arguing that national governments should take some simple steps to reframe economic quantities and help the public overcome the money illusion.
Yet we tend to search for scapegoats when things go wrong, and we share the illusion that tighter controls are always better.
As Javier Solana recently put it, “We have been living in an illusion.
That illusion coexisted happily with a lack of imagination.
In the past 50 years, all "elected" officials, including Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, were designated in ways that delivered the illusion of choice but without the element of uncertainty.
Time and again, Europe paid a high price for policies of compromises with evil that were dictated by economic interests or the illusion that evil can be appeased and will disappear of its own accord.
Unfortunately, many countries have committed themselves to precisely this illusion, and it may be a long time before they take heed of Greenspan’s most important lesson.
People entertained the illusion that the transition from communism would be fast and relatively painless.
So the illusion that the "ghoulash" communism of Janos Kadar could be restored - and to its credit, Horn’s government did not encourage such nostalgia - went unfulfilled.
It is an illusion, but a socially created illusion.
People and governments need to rid themselves of the comforting illusion that countries’ use of military force to acquire territory is an anachronism.
The elite of Pakistan, Ali Talpur continues, “subscribing to a statist and militarist ideology,” became “the self-appointed defenders of Islam,” and “even the brigands of Islamic history” were accorded the status of heroes, creating an illusion of invincibility and grandeur that is “not in any way in keeping with reality.”
Any illusion that the populist coalition could be kept in check by moderate cabinet members has now been destroyed.
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