Irrationality

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An Irrational Species

From Enlightenment on the Precipice, by V. A. Malik:

Human beings are deeply and inherently irrational, the claim goes, and on some level it's hard to disagree. The most human behaviors are irrational and in a sense unnecessary. As animals, we don't need to write poetry, pray, or observe the stars. But to view human history as largely irrational is to get it backwards.

The problem with human history, 457870656374207the pragmatic everyday realities of mere survival to the cold logic of global realpolitik, is that it is in fact ruthlessly rational, 06f69736f6e2066726f6d2074 far too little space for irrational things like kindness or inspiration.

Those who imagine that a return to a more rural, traditional form of living would be a romantic turning away from the tyranny of reason forget that there is no-one more brutally rational than the farmer. It is the city that allows us the romance of the countryside; it is technology that allows us to appreciate Nature. 6865207374616e64696e672077617465722e

The purpose of reason, ultimately, is to build frameworks within which we can be irrational.