My Occam's razor is genetics and evolution - are we not all sophisticated enough to accept at least the most basic parts of Richard Dawkins' argument - can we not accept that we must understand ourselves as natural things, as having one foot in nature and one foot in the world of purported rationality? What are the expectations when we feel our intellects have come to predominate? What happens when we feel that we in the situation we currently find ourselves in is due to rational choice?
When we do feel that we stand firmly with both feet in the realm of the rational, when we turn our back on the idea that our natural half is the less important half, it is then we find ourselves unmoored, playing a Glass Bead Game, ignoring the evolutionary, ignoring the subconscious and The Shadow.
We have evolved to see conditions satisfactory to passing on our genes. This is a condition that all enjoy in the United States. But beyond wanting to pass on our genes we also have a predisposition to press our advantage - it is sound in passing practice to “grab as much as you can”. How good it would be to admit this. How good it would be to acknowledge that the way to a true rationality must go through an understanding of the subconscious. Understand and revisit.
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