Rationality is the Ultimate Enslaver Part 1
Rationality is the Ultimate Enslaver Or rather convincing yourself that you are rational is. (Part 1) What is rational behaviour? Acting in the best possible manner to optimise for some objective, I suppose that's a good way to define it. An old thought But is rational behaviour even possible? Not in humans, not right now atleast, simply because we are not aware of own 'wills'. How do we become aware of our own wills? Assuming 'wills' exist (whatever they mean). One becomes aware of their own wills often by language, by giving words to feelings, or to be more specific, giving words to a set of feelings experienced over time. Here already, the raw phenomena, the raw 'feeling' is already coloured by a ton of inherited assumptions via language. Language, although powerful, is often heavily burdened by many ideas assumed by society. Things like, 'I am a good person', 'All humans want love', 'thinking that way is nonsense/not helpful', ...