“Take up the White Man’s burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine,
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
(The end for others sought)
Watch sloth and heathen folly
Bring all your hope to nought.” -Rudyard Kipling
I can see how it’s applicable as an exhortation to attempt to solve the hard problems which others find too difficult to deal with, or accept as the natural order of things, and an acknowledgment that the greatest barrier is often the irrationality or apathy of others. But it also treads on mindkiller territory; I didn’t vote either way.
“Take up the White Man’s burden-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest (The end for others sought) Watch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hope to nought.” -Rudyard Kipling
How is this related to rationality?
I can see how it’s applicable as an exhortation to attempt to solve the hard problems which others find too difficult to deal with, or accept as the natural order of things, and an acknowledgment that the greatest barrier is often the irrationality or apathy of others. But it also treads on mindkiller territory; I didn’t vote either way.