{"id":46540,"date":"2011-08-25T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/25\/i-coined-the-term-irrational-rationalism-because\/"},"modified":"2011-08-25T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:17:07","slug":"i-coined-the-term-irrational-rationalism-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/25\/i-coined-the-term-irrational-rationalism-because\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I coined the term irrational rationalism because those people claim to be rationalists, but they&rsquo;re governed by such a heavy body of taboos. They&rsquo;re so fearful, and so hostile, and so narrow, and frightened, and uptight and dogmatic&hellip; I wrote this book because I got tired satirizing fundamentalist Christianity&hellip; I decided to satirize fundamentalist materialism for a change, because the two are equally comical&hellip; The materialist fundamentalists are funnier than the Christian fundamentalists, because they think they&rsquo;re rational! &hellip;They&rsquo;re never skeptical about anything except the things they have a prejudice against. None of them ever says anything skeptical about the AMA, or about anything in establishment science or any entrenched dogma. They&rsquo;re only skeptical about new ideas that frighten them. They&rsquo;re actually dogmatically committed to what they were taught when they were in college&hellip;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Robert Anton Wilson<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I coined the term irrational rationalism because those people claim to be rationalists, but they&rsquo;re governed by such a heavy body of taboos. They&rsquo;re so fearful, and so hostile, and so narrow, and frightened, and uptight and dogmatic&hellip; I wrote this book because I got tired satirizing fundamentalist Christianity&hellip; I decided to satirize fundamentalist materialism &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/25\/i-coined-the-term-irrational-rationalism-because\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}