Incentive Blindness

Incentive Blindness

Chris Cook’s Was Blind, Now See; expressive oil painting of a figure with hands raised and a vibrant purple garment.

Most unethical behaviour is never hidden

It’s always seen and ignored

People don’t look away because they are immoral

They look away because noticing is costly

Seeing the truth can threaten status, belonging, progress

So the mind protects itself

Unethical becomes normal

Wrong becomes necessary

And silence becomes reasonable

This isn’t just weakness

It’s motivated reasoning

Sifting out truths too costly to face

ESSENCE

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Chris Cook

Chris Cook

Viktoria Kosinskaya’s Emptiness; ethereal portrait of a blurred figure in yellow beside a dark, textured form.

EMPTINESS, 2025 BY VIKTORIA KOSINSKAYA

Moonassi’s minimalist ink illustration of a multi-faceted figure with overlapping silhouettes.

Untitled, 2016 by Moonassi

René Magritte’s Not to Be Reproduced; surrealist painting of a man looking into a mirror reflecting the back of his head.

Not to Be Reproduced, 1937 by René Magritte

Bill Stone’s Stomp; expressive abstract oil painting with heavy impasto strokes of red, yellow, and black.

Stomp, 2008 by Bill Stone