[lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 12:17:41 PDT 2005


On 6/5/05, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


> Implicit in this claim: "irrational" is always pejorative. Many
> human activities do not follow norms of rationality (e.g., Dali's
> paintings, exorcisms, witchcraft, Beck's lyrics, longing for someone who
> has bluntly told you "not interested"). Why position rationality
> as the gold standard for good behavior and thought? Why couldn't
> identification of someone's irrationality be--a compliment?
>
> Miles

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One simply need acknowledge the ubiquity of arationality in individual-cum-collective norms in social life.

-- "Life sure is weird but what else am I to know?" [Jason Pierce]



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