Because if you don’t like it, you’re the ass. But, if it’s bad, they’re the ass. Few people bother to climb the steep wall of cognitive dissonance required to

Because if you don’t like it, you’re the ass. But, if it’s bad, they’re the ass. Few people bother to climb the steep wall of cognitive dissonance required to embrace the fact that the source of their problem might be intrinsic. Much easier to paint your displeasure in the palette of extrinsic and objective failures. You’re still an ass, but at least you don’t have to think of yourself as one.