The series of anti-social lockdowns we have endured this past year has left us all rusty in the essential skill without which no civilisation can survive, that greatest social virtue: hypocrisy. For instance, on one of my mandatory walks recently I met Mr Fury. A classic example of the wheels coming off a useful hypocrisy thanks to the pandemic. Okay, I may like Mr Fury and Ms Lemon for their good points but, if it wasn’t for a certain hypocrisy, I couldn’t stand them. Hypocrisy, from Latin hypocrisis, Greek hypokrisis for “acting, pretending”.

Source: The Irish Times March 20, 2021 00:22 UTC