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You assume people ever cared about facts. People are more emotional than they are rational when it comes to things that are outside of their control. While some
by pixelcloud 10y ago
You assume people ever cared about facts. People are more emotional than they are rational when it comes to things that are outside of their control. While someone might be perfectly rational and logical in their life (e.g. they pay their taxes, they go to work, they make smart choices in their day to day lives), when it comes to things that are outside of our control (politics, economy, death, etc).
We have always been pretty irrational and easy to manipulate.
- aswanson 10y agoFeelings don't care about your facts. It's actually amazing that a breed of primates made it this far when you consider how irrational we really are with regard to so many things: who we cede power to, how we judge truth and falsity, etc.
- flukus 10y agoWe didn't get this far despite our irrationality, we got this far because of it.
- cghendrix 10y agoInteresting. Care to elaborate?
- flukus 10y agoWe're here, so there was some advantage to our irrationality. Hating outsiders helps our children survive for example. I'd argue a lot of our best inventions required a certain amount of irrationality to create.
- steve_b 10y agoI think you may be begging the question. You might be right that we're here because of our irrationality, but using your conclusion as its own argument isn't very convincing.
- aninhumer 10y agoNo, all you can infer from the fact that we're still here is that it's possible to succeed while being irrational. It tells you nothing about whether we succeeded despite or because of it.