By nature, people sell their wares and services to people who can't produce them themselves, but who produce other things. Therefore, by nature the success of anything is contingent on the non-expert opinion of people who are proficient to expert in other fields.
Reasoning by hard binary logic, from scratch, is a failure mode for humans, akin to navigating the oceans by the stars when your GPS fails. A Socrates is not a trainable phenomenon, but someone who has used the wrong muscles to the point they are overdeveloped.
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Spirituality is another failure mode, and the more dominant one in human societies. The person who falls back on reason as a failure mode is more consistently and truly martyred than the person who falls back on unreason, yet the latter is better celebrated.
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Reason as a failure mode is situated in absolute environment as its scope, while unreason as one is situated in social environment as its scope. The latter is more efficient. The most popular strains of it are also structurally pro-social in net effect, whereas reason is asocial.
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There is something dirty about unreason to me, even with my intuitions about its utility and the inherent non-culpability of those who fall victim to it. Some day the exact meaning of "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone" will be known.
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I hope it will reconcile everything, and me to everything.
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