I’d add: if you have read The City & The City, then you’ll be familiar with the concept of “unseeing”: things people have trained themselves to not see, not recognise and not understand, even as they are happening right in front of them.
flyingrodent
1) He’s the worst kind of boss wanker: stridently moralistic, judgemental and ruthlessly enforcing The Rules but also a brazenly dishonest liar who twists The Rules to serve his purposes
2) They’re all very right wing cranks and they think she is very effective at selling their right wing crankery
