Q&A: Yossi
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Yossi
Question
Do you really think that nowadays people act more from the gut and less from the head? Isn’t that just romanticism? Was there ever some period in the past when people acted from the head and not from the gut?
It was always like that.
Answer
I made this more precise in one of the recent podcasts: in the past it was clear that this was a failing (a bias), whereas today (following the despair of reason) it has become an ideology.
Discussion on Answer
Up until postmodernism.
No.
In what year did postmodernism begin?
3.7.1924
That was in the late afternoon hours of the day you mentioned. You should really be precise in such fateful matters.
1. In exactly what period was it clear that this was a failing?
2. Don’t you think that today there is a kind of sobering-up, and that since you wrote Two Wagons the world has become more encouraging of rationality and reason?