“You know I’ve got to be more than this…”
Reason is in twilight: advantage and interest have reached their paradoxical limits. There is no incentive for optimality. Society cannot self-sustain, not constructed within a a set of negative loopholes. And so rationality goes the way of faith; statistics and economics and psychology become alchemy and astrology and parapsychology.
“…The more you think, the less you act this way…”
Fake it till you make it.
“…The fake sound of progress…”