Vedant’s blog

A few days ago somebody asked me a straight question. I replied with a logical and comprehensive answer. Now I realise that she just might have wanted a short answer which was appreciative, and my long answer might have been overkill.

This is weird. It was a simple question, there was a simple answer. But it didn’t meet social norms.

I wonder if this is because humans are not inherently logical. We make a lot of uninformed decisions. Many people even have arguments about things they don’t even know about. Many people speak incorrect information about something because they are unable to just say “I don’t know” or something similar.

Was this behaviour there when civilization first started and societies began to form? At that time, maybe people didn’t even thinking of making oneself informed — maybe there was no such thing. I guess the questions at the root of my thoughts is, why are we illogical? How did we become ignorant? What were the precipitating factors? When was this in the timeline of human history?

It seems to me that the nature of the universe excluding living beings is more simple than living beings itself. Simple, of course, is a slightly ambiguous term — something which is simple for a math major might be quite difficult for a biology major, and vice versa.

I wish humans were logical, but at the same time I realise that logical beings have not yet been able to discover new things by themselves^{[citation needed]}. They also lack the emotion which makes us appreciate nature in general and amazes us when we see the sky at night. In the end, no, I only wish some specific traits of humans didn’t exist.