Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Humor distorts nothing and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution which can only end in a distorted bastardized form of illegitimate government.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Get your facts first then you can distort them as you please.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich beautiful and famous more authority than they deserve.
The New Right in many cases is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts confuses and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Likewise education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview the results are horrific.