Presidential election season fascinates me. Not because of the candidates, but from seeing how far people go in lengths for their emotions.
The word that passed around oftenly is 'rationality' and the lack thereof.
For those who don't know, I'll focus on candidates number 01 and 02.
I dont believe 01, because he is a manipulative liar. He's very smart in his talking yet his results are far grounded from what he promised pre-election. Not because he is naive, but he is also unrealistic about his goals, for example the promise and perils of down payment of houses being 0. Then, he goes forth in segregating the populace using politics identity, on how he reigned into a governor position driven mainly by the populace belief 'if you are a muslim and you don't vote for him, then you sin.' We actually have sheikhs talk about this and he is fully aware of this, unfortunately he reigned in being a governor and when his first statement after winning is 'This is a glorious day to win for native humans of Indonesia,' fully aware that his opposition is chinese, he is brutally racist.
Then we have people who vote for 01, claiming people who vote for 02 are being irrational. Using their own logic of thinking.
This is where 'rationality' or 'irrationality' has lost its true subtance/essence, as there is never such a thing called objective rationality.
'Rationality' is consensual by the masses, in which the masses who vote 01 can circlejerk and call 02 to be irrational while the masses of 02 can circlejerk and call 01 to be irrational.
This is not far when we see some amazonian tribe still practice cannibalism when its truly necesarry for survival and we urbanized human being would call them as making an irrational behavior as we are so alien to the concept and simply can't imagine where such a situation is necesarry in day to day life.
Then how about murder other people is objectively irrational? Well some people believe in 'Eye for an eye'. Famous argument would be, if someone would kill someone you loved so dearly, wouldn't you want to stand up and kill them?
In a place where the masses agree whether it's by law that passes 'death sentence' of certain crimes, killing can be justified because a 'rational' decision is determined by the consent of the masses.
Just like we no longer skin people alive when people in the past used to for certain crimes, or to put them on a bull shaped steel and torch a fire under the belly and let the man screams as his skin gets burned and aphyxiated.
The most disgusting part about me is that people walk around call other people irrational while not being fully aware that what they call to be rationality is just sustained by the people who surrounds them.
"Rationality" and Future's Early Call.
People invest in financial assets, it goes down, he made an 'irrational' decision, it goes up, the same decision is now deemed 'rational'.
How does he knows that whether it goes up or down? He made predictions based on his assumptions, he draw somewhat of a regression to support his decision making. This is the same with career choice, we at some point of time, reminiscence of the past and speculate about the future and we are rewarded if we get it right and we suffer if we get it wrong.
A lot of artists are now in shambles for the uprising of AI generated arts, does it deem them to be irrational not being able to see this from happening? Should they be deemed to have made an 'irrational' decision for their career choices? In my opinion, no. But such is life and unexpected phenomena, best thing we can do is reassess future probabilities again and hopefully we moved forward the path we deem to be the best way for us.
The future is somewhat unpredictable, but it's always best to practice speculating the future and the point is that to be right more than you are wrong.
For when you understand that there's no such thing is 'absolute rationalism', then you agree that what matters are the decisions that you make are the decisions that you think hold your upmost rationality, while accounting that you can certainly be wrong, and that's okay. Ego inflation is when you walk around telling people what to do and thinking you get it all figured out, we are not born yesterday and the world keeps changing, anyone can be wrong and parents have no right to exercise absolutism with very little to no room of error in major decision making of their child lives. Let the child exercise active decision making for what's best is ultimately the child knows that the decisions that they've made are the decisions that they've made on their own all along.
There is no such thing is Absolute Rationalism.
We don't live in a world where someone can just make the right/rational decision all the time he made a decision.
Great people are just more often right than they are wrong.