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Enron’s performance has been within the national business and political fundamental rule of behavior: Enron’s officers used “selective inattention,” a well-known psychological device characterized by blocking out those data of consciousness that generate anxiety, guilt and other unpleasant feelings. It’s is a more sophisticated form of denial that permits the person to act “honestly.”
Those who are coming down hard on Enron’s officers are also using selective inattention by ignoring the fact that selective inattention has become the country’s norm in business, politics and journalism, to mention few.
