Well it is obvious that we hold rationality in very high esteem and there is no question of its importance for us human beings. But it seems to me that our thrive to rationality is killing our liberal aspect.
To put my worry into a question: If we were acting fully rational at any given moment, what would be there, to differenciate us from a machine? Is it not our irrationality, the imperfections of our actions, which makes us human? There is often the discussion wheter humans are animals and wheter roboters are living beings similar to humans. I see the human as an bridge between the animals which are considered irrational, under the heavy influnece of their urges, and the completely rational Machines (Although i still think we are a type of animal).
There also seems to be ignorance against the fact, that humans and animals are on a ground level always acting rational. After all our brain and body act by chemical reactions which follow physical rules, those rules are perfectly rational, so how could something created by rationality be irrational? A person that seems to be doing something incredibly irrational is in the end acting completely rational if we look at the baselevel of his actions. We confuse stupidity in our High-Level-System for irrationality.
If we look at more rational systems like the world in Aldous Huxleys "Brave New World" [...which i highly recommend reading together with Orwells "1984" if you search for storys of totalitarian dystopias] we dislike the higher magnitude of order (the classification of people into classes from birth on as a example) although the population in the book is more happy than ours. And I think the least people would appreciate a social credit system as it exists in China in their own country altough rationally speaking it leads to a overall better life for the population. We do not want to loose our liberty.
So to conclude what I am hinting within this text, I think we shouldn't stay in pure rationality, we should live between the chaos and the order, especially because there exists a misconception of whats rational and what isn't. I would never advertise rampant and irresponsible short term hedonism but I do not like the current rise of strict order.
Please give me your thoughts on my take, good critique is essential to shape a confident idea.
The following picture is a flower I photographed on a sunny morning, it is completely unrelated.
