The guy who demands that everyone be rational becomes the most irrational of all.
That’s an old Taoist zinger. It rang true when Lao-Tzu swayed atop his water buffalo to the misty hills of eternity; it’s true today as we clatter along in our mechanical Jacobins, guillotinely crisp in our rationality.
Your run-of-the-mill rationalist—all puffed up with hi…
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