
'Twould be nice if rationality waned for a generation or many, give us time to recover from being overdosed with it since the ahem Renaissance, and suffering the damage of Renaissance Persons with pseudo-mastery of more than they know how to handle except to blow the shit out of a world they cannot truly comprehend except as a clueless wad defying self-annointe High IQers. De Toqueville adored patronizing the "American People" of his time what they were good and bad at (one of the earliest promoters of AADD). And every Sheeplemongering weenie who lusts to be Somebody whips out the bullfrog's constitutional and citers it as wisdom for the masses needing superior guidance -- that is from-the-mount sermonizing from the wannabe mighty-mites who really just want to avoid hard labor, an agenda the masses don't get advised to abide. What's inspiring about misbehavior, for whatever cause, is that it drives the Reasonable People, those who know so little they need armoring with tin-thin rationality, into a panic of recognition of the alluring siren call to chuck overcontrol and enjoy getting under the thinskin of the hypo-rougers of a reality ever shedding its skin for new realities. Up ADD, hurrah for hyperrationality, the way past certain knowledge and comforting wisdom of the way things are not, never were, never will be. Medevial superstition, plague, sloth and licentiousness, now there's a cheap Ritalin for science and economy and law and decency all too reasonable, all too nearly inescapable, all too non-fictional to be believed.