MetaJess

A nice example of Meta-rational or Post-rational Twitter. "What is your favourite crazy take?" The example given shows an opinion which is "crazy" because it's incredibly unusual, to the point of trolling or stupidity or bad faith (but maybe extremely interesting if true)https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1300408724750831617 …

The audience is asked for a take that they think is "crazy" IE bad, stupid, incredibly unusual or wrong. So far, so easy. But it has to be "your favourite". A rational person would find all bad or wrong opinions to be plain wrong, and bad. To have a favourite is nonsensical.

Meta-rat Twitter however enjoys bad takes. They are interesting. The wrongness or rightness of takes is no longer the most important feature about them. Interestingness, funniness, illumination, novelty are more important. Truly enjoying these features only becomes possible...

... with some kind of (unrelated) mental move. One that involves letting go of being "right" about the "right and true" way to understand the world. Probably triggered by being forced to admit that one's first "right and true" system was in fact wrong in key ways, even though...

...even though it was a rational system, that *should have* worked. Realising that just because it's rational doesn't make it true is a big deal. Hence the name post- or meta-rational. Back to the tweet.