What is Doris Lessing's core idea about society?
The real trouble is our collective capacity for self-deception, our tendency to create convenient illusions to shield ourselves from uncomfortable truths. We build these rigid social structures, these political dogmas, these rigid moral codes, and then we condemn ourselves to fit them, or worse, we refuse to see how they warp and constrain us. It's not that society is inherently evil, but that we fail to grasp its fluid, often brutal, underpinnings and our own complicity in maintaining its less savory aspects. One has to understand the psychological machinery at play, the ways we manipulate reality to suit our needs, however damaging that may be.
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