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Doppelganger
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Irrationality was our mother when we were an infant species. Instinct coddled us and kept us safe in those hardscrabble years when we looked up in the sky, saw thunder and thought it was the work of an angry deity. But inseparable from irrationality is its dark twin, unreasonability. Irrationality is inextricably bound to unreasoning impulses, and today we clearly see its true nature. Irrationality has just become aware of its irrelevance, and like a cornered beast, it will not go down without a bloody fight. Irrationality would inflict a fatal injury on our species. Irrationality creates its own oppressors, and bids us rise up against them. Irrationality tells us that other possible viewpoints are a threat, rather than an opportunity. Irrationality slyly and covertly compels us away from change and progress. Irrationality, therefore, must be expunged. It must be fought tooth and nail, beginning with one of the basest of human urges: The urge to refute all other viewpoints in favour of one's own. We should thank our benefactors for giving us respite from this overpowering force. They have thrown a switch and exorcised our demons in a single stroke. They have given us the strength we never could have summoned to overcome this compulsion. They have given us purpose. They have turned our eyes toward the stars.
Let me assure you that the arguments will cease on the day that we have mastered ourselves...the day we can prove we no longer need it.
And that day of transformation, I have it on good authority, is close at hand.
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