It is a failure
Common to man
That he does not
Seek out enough information
Before deciding.
Category Archives: Dysrationalia
As Never to Question
As Much as You Do
It’s Stupid, You Say
It’s stupid, you say,
To start working a puzzle
Before you’ve got all its pieces
Laid out on the table.
Questions and the Cognitive Miser
Ask a few questions in a single post (in a topical discussion group) and observe how the average joe responds. See how often it happens that he answers one question and doesn’t touch the others—and makes no mention of why he’s ignoring the others.
Continue reading Questions and the Cognitive MiserHaving Missed the Point
Perhaps, At No Particular Hour
Perhaps, at no particular hour
It might strike a man
That he has a mind
That is capable of good work,
And that good work
Might be worth the effort.
I Would Not Put It Past Them
When it comes to
Their drive to get what they want,
I would not put it past them
To orchestrate murders
Under the guise
Of stopping murders—
Even the Scholar
What a Man Cannot See
There is no limit
To what a man cannot see
When he has got his eyes shut