Modernity brings rationalism with it. Today rationality is overvalued. You are expected to be rational always, everytime. Your slightest of irrational act may make you 'childish'.
But I humbly beg to differ from this earthly wisdom. Rationality is obviously important. But not always. My encounter with rationality teaches me that it brings fatigue. Being rational always is frustrating, stagnating and dumb. That makes you rigid, inflexible. You loose originality. You start thinking with some established norms and parameters.
Thus let me assert that a bit of irrational behavior is really needed. It's like salt in the food, too much is spoiler but absence is unpalatable. So sometimes being childish is refreshing, energizing.
In intellectual world, they have coined new -ism as opposite to modernism i.e. post-modernism. But I reject to subscribe to even this new -ism because ultimately every -ism demands compliance. So let's have something original and human being is irrational originally at bottom, I believe.
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