[extropy-chat] Victoria News: Singularitarians in the City of Gardens

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/6/06, Al Brooks <kerry_prez at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Okay. But recently I've come to doubt, just for instance, economics--
> economics is no science. And the social 'sciences' as they are taught in
> K-12 are junk, and perhaps in higher Ed as well.
> I honestly think legitimate grounds exist for not only skepticism but also
> cynicism & mistrust as well; that is harsh, but there's something to it.
> Nietzsche wrote, "there are rational reasons for abandoning rationalism".
> Would have to think about that a long time, but he was on to something.
>

Rationalism does not get big things done.
That takes emotion, and often very unreasonable and irrational emotion
bordering on insanity.

Dirk
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