Just spent a little down time on the steaming chaos of #Threads of all places, just to see. It’s just post after post of self-marketing and terrible negative takes (proscriptions about everything you can imagine & then crazy bitching about the proscriptions) - a HOW DARE YOU culture gone mead-drippingly Mad; hysterically, nakedly crazy in all the worst ways - where’s the madfast Cody crazy kids? These people are gonna burn out and then burn INTO a kind of unworldly & unsophisticated middle-age…
…want that cold #rationality then go for it but let the dreamers #dream a little, or make bad #poetry or suffer the possibility of pretension or of being ‘away with the #fairies ‘ (who wouldn’t want to be with the #fae ??) or of delving into things we can’t possibly understand - aren’t those things the most fun? We don’t always NEED to understand; often we just need to throw ourselves into the abyss… maybe more #Kierkegaard than #Hobbes or a more accurate, more romantic take on #Nietzsche …
Suggestion: If a source repeatedly makes multiple easily refutable claims (#GishGallop), then this source should be considered "Gish-branded" and be ignored in further communications – until they make a good-faith demonstration (in a forum that is equivalent to the one they received the brand), that they are capable of conducting a well-reasoned and #Rational argument.
This is another excellent discussion of #rationality and mental illness.
I find it funny because I have just finished Ernest Gellners's book "Postmodernism, Reason and Religion" and I am taken by how we can have something like "Enlightenment Fundamentalist Reason" and the lack of rationality side by side in contemporary society.
Edgar Morin about Reason / Rationality / Rationalization.
Reason: "Reason corresponds to a desire to have a coherent vision of phenomena, things and the universe. The reason has an indisputably logical aspect."
Rationality: "Rationality, in a way, never claims to exhaust the totality of the real in a logical system, but it has the will to dialogue with what resists it."
A few days ago, my home city was under a tornado warning. I was talking to someone during the incident, and they said, "you shouldn't be afraid of tornadoes; you should be afraid of God." When I hear someone say the phrase, "you shouldn't be afraid of X; you should be afraid of #God," where X is a natural disaster or something else that is dangerous, I think that the #religion they follow is clouding their minds and their sense of #rationality.
Just read the #mangaI Sold My Life for 10,000 Yen per Year. Enjoyed its bittersweetness. I s'pose living every day as if it’s one of the last days of your life (as long it’s not actually so, unlike in the manga), through which you would (reasonably) prioritize yourself, could be a way to #happiness. Also, while real life is in the way (compelling the protagonist to make the choice to give up his life), #love did prevail (convincing others that Miyagi really exists). You should give it a read!
Speaking of #rationality of #life, I should also mention #ElonMusk’s new #xAI thing, where he stated that the goal is to “understand the true nature of the universe.” Of course it’s just a slogan, but I feel that collapsing everything info reasoning would be disastrous. The true nature of the #universe is unpredictability; letting it be might be the better way to go.