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The Ur-Quan Masters Re-Release => Starbase Café => Topic started by: Zanthius on January 25, 2018, 09:46:07 pm



Title: The age of irrationality
Post by: Zanthius on January 25, 2018, 09:46:07 pm
With this guy as the American president:

(http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/55918a4b6da811695ab77f22-480/rtx1gzco.jpg)

And this guy winning the nobel prize for teaching us about human biases:

(http://ogrencikariyeri.com/haber/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/zihin_05.jpg)

Are we perhaps living in the age of irrationality? I don't mean that people weren't irrational in the past. Just that people were less aware about how irrational we were then, and that there is a much bigger focus upon how irrational we are today.