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Crystallizing the idealists' credo, Clinton declared Friday, "We cannot fundamentally alter human nature, but we can alter the rules by which all of us let our nature play out, and we can call forth our better selves."
Watching Johnson and Nixon visit their private demons on the nation made the public correctly curious about candidates' hidden selves.
He understands that self-exposure, an organizing principle of our politics and our culture, is a defense mechanism: The selves we shamelessly exhibit to the world are screens, and Avedon uses his camera to penetrate them.
In it, Nagel makes two obvious but overlooked points: 1. Civilization is impossible without distinctions drawn between private and public life, and between the inner and the outer self; and 2. A society governed by politicians without private lives or inner selves is a society governed by madmen or cretins.
It is a trite thought, I know, but our hands and our faces come very close to being our selves--our "higher" selves, at least (our lower ones reposing in some oafish organs in the gut and below).