Human beings wish to believe in a pure and good inner self led astray by “cultural forces”; or a conflicted self that is concerned not with righteousness but only with happiness and unhappiness; or a self afflicted by and seeking to throw off the burden of a flawed and inadequate past; or no self at all. We will, it seems, do almost anything, construct almost any story, to avoid the recognition that something is deeply wrong with all of us, that whatever it is causes us to do what is wrong, and that we cannot plausibly blame that wrongdoing wholly on external forces.

Alan Jacobs](https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/outside-in/). This is a great reflection on sin and anthropology with a typically Jacobian cast of interlocutors: Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Rebecca West, but also Pixar’s Inside Out.