Berrytron: Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Irrationality | title = An Irrational Species | author = V.A. Malik | loc = FUZON }} 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..."

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Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Irrationality | title = An Irrational Species | author = V.A. Malik | loc = FUZON }} 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..."

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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, {{HexString|457870656374207|Expect}}the pragmatic everyday realities of mere survival to the cold logic of global realpolitik, is that it is in fact ruthlessly rational, {{HexString|06f69736f6e2066726f6d2074|poison from}} 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. {{HexString|6865207374616e64696e672077617465722e|the standing water.}}

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