I just just me, or is the world a totally irrational place?

Answer 1

no your quite right...but thats the way the cookie crumbles im afraid

Answer 2

Being an ethnic studies and anthropology major, I would have to agree that there is very little in this world that makes total sense, especially when it comes to human nature.

For example, the American attitude to homosexuality really is baffling when there are far more threatening problems--poverty, terrorism, faultering social security--even in the realm of Christianity, it seems that homosexuality isn't that big of a deal--if you think of the ones passed on DIRECTLY from God to Moses, Thou Shalt Not Commit Homosexual Acts isn't among them. God was more worried about people killing other people, sleeping with their neighbor's wife, or--most vainly--about them passing attetion on to other dieties.

But, when was the last time an adulterer was thrown out of the congregation?

And when was the last time a homosexual was??

Answer 3

Maybe not the world, but human beings are inherently irrational beings motivated by their emotions.

Answer 4

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.

Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously – always intent on their own advantage.

This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.

However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap

Answer 5

Completely stark staring bonkers.

Answer 6

yes it is! and no, not at all.
your just irrational, but I'm just being irrational, but no, yes.... sdljhkasdlk etc.woop woop./

Answer 7

I can't make sense of it either.