You doubt it, yet you are too, if I may, one living proof of it :)
I don't refer to rational Reason.
Start up without assumptions or made-up truths
It all begins with very small things. Maybe a word said, the tone of a voice, will trigger a reaction in us that we hadn't planned and that we cannot control. Maybe the voice sounded so much like aunt Martha or you heard that word from your teacher when you didn't do your homework.
You will feel free from assumptions and above made-up truths but social conditioning, experience are often stronger than our good will. Rational Reason is quite abstract, cold and scientific. You had mentioned Newton's laws, which is why I don't subscribe to being a reasonable rationalist or a rational reasonalist.
I'm speaking real-life politics here: in practice, we can actually find a lot more precise answers to problems than one might suspect.
The real world is much more prosaic and issues often have much simpler solutions than we might suspect
The problem is that precise answers to problems and simple solutions rarely allow us to conclude that policy makers were led by rational Reason.
Einstein's relativity is political philosophy. Newton's Laws are politics applied to every day life; the former is becoming more like a historical phenomenology of politics, while the latter is becoming independent and intelligent enough to make a difference. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Maybe I'm just stupid, but could you bend it in neon for me?
