For some reason, last night turned into one of those huge D&M conversations even after getting back home around 2:30am. Some of what was said will remain unsaid, but theres one thing that I think I discovered about myself which I thought warrented some attention. Somehow it just evolved came from a bunch of rather unrelated topics we were talking about and kind of thinking about it on the way home.
You'd like to think that humans are rational. In many cases, it would be quite safe to say that they are. The whole basis of economic theory is on that assumption, and we normally live our lives thinking that we are relatively rational, with the odd exceptions. E.g. Drunk, homeless people mumbling profanities on the way to where ever it is they go to when they're drunk and homeless. We see these outsiders as crazy and at the very least, a little hard to understand.
I realised that we're actually not all that different. For periods in our lives, we're quite irrational. Its part of what makes us human, and if you try to suppress that, then you're probably not going to get the whole 'experience' thing out of life. Theres some things you can only really do if you're not thinking straight. Somehow to me, they can be the most interesting and enjoyable things you can do. We shouldn't be shunning away from our illogical side, we should be incorporating it into our lives. This is not to say that I endorse crazy people, I'm just saying that we should live with and make the most of what we've got.
Basically, its irrational to think that we're rational, because we're not. Now thats a pretty paradoxial statement, but I'm sure you'll understand what I'm trying to say if you stare at it and run it through you head enough times.
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