Yes, it could well be a part of culture among those humans who do it or read abt it or watch things abt it for pleasure or profit.
No, it's not. Civilisations go backwards and forwards when it comes to reason & science. Greeks doing well, then bang, Christianity.
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Huh. So you subscribe to a more cyclic type picture of human progress?
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Not enough time to predict a pattern. Except that reason seems to be a luxury afforded those who don't have to worry about existence.
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Reason by its very nature has a direction - towards increasing knowledge.
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But it needs people to value it & keep valuing it & we are largely irrational & can be tempted back to in when we feel under threat.
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Although at times of crisis, it wld be much better if everyone tried to be more reasonable, in reality, they usually get less so.
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Argh, plague! Lets kill lots of Jews. Argh refugee crisis! Lets polarise over whether this is any kind of threat & take extreme positions.
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