Thanksgiving makes at least sense (it's the day when Americans are grateful that the natives did not have a military). But XMas™ seems fully colonized by an unsustainable layer of distorted memes and cultural habits that do not allow any connection to healthy spiritual roots.
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Maybe you mean a more specific set of axioms by the term “rational”. All I mean is the systemic use of reasons and arguments and so on. I don’t see why an implicit premise that, eg, survival > happiness is prima facie or necessarily “rational”.
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Under evolutionary conditions, the system that prevails will be the one that is optimizing for survival, and rationality is (by definition) the best optimization strategy. Once you decide that you are going to stick around, rationality constrains you.
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Rationalism used to be the intellectual framework of the Enlightenment, but it succumbed to romantic humanism, fascism and its postmodern intermediaries. Today, Rationalism means both a rapidly disintegrating self help group for autistic children, and the theosophy of that group.
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