There’s an ancient Hebrew story about a Pharaoh who gets so stuck in his ways that he’s unable to change no matter how bad things get for him and his people. As a society and as individuals it seems too many of us suffer the same kind of inflexibility, doing the same things over and over again, from all the terrible news stories we repeatedly see, to clinging to our ideas about being right even when the evidence says otherwise. Perhaps, like Pharaoh, if we can’t break free of our own worst habits they will end up destroying us.