Faking rationality: yet another Rationalizing Animal post

I said yesterday I was done with this, but I'm a rationalizing animal, too, so I'm happily inconsistent.

Also, I realized I had lied to myself. Accepting that humans are irrational animals did not make me happy. It made me quite depressed for about 48 hours, so I'm going to go back to being irrationally optimistic about my irrational species. I intend to cling desperately to the notion that we can fake being rational sometimes, and someday, we'll be able to fake it often enough to make a bett...