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February
Blind Habit (or Dysrationality) Thrives When One’s Sense Of Entitlement Is Pursued
February 19, 2023
Success will one day destroy Texas and Florida because reason is built in the struggle (suffering), whereas irrationality is always made worse with success and entitlement (very nearly the goal of civilization).
Thus they [societies] are always descending from good to bad and rising from bad to good. For virtue gives birth to quiet, quiet to leisure, leisure to disorder, disorder to ruin;
Machiavelli, Fear and Virtue
Humans aren’t fallen. Humans are just predominantly irrational. Sometimes, or inescapably through entitlement, irrationality (without reason) leads to dysrationality (a rejection or denial of reason in the existence of reason).
In dysrationality, human civilizations fall.