Oct '25 • General discussion
Reason is boring
"reason is boring"
First of all:
In this text "reason" is translated as "Vernunft", not "Begründung"
Just the other day, my mother was in a discussion and in a "driveby sentence", about a completely different topic, she mentioned: "...reason is boring..."
And I was blown away when I just randomly heard that. For me, this is a statement, which seems so obvious when I write about it now. It's like "I kind of knew it". It was some sort of intuition I couldn't quite wrap my head around untli then.
It's just a so much more logical and simple answer to many seemingly complicated questions we have about day-to-day life expereinces such as:
- Why are women so often more attracted to the bad, freaky guys, who don't even care about them instead of the calm, safe guy that actually cares about her?
- Why are we seeing so many political videos, where 2 radical people of the 2 political opposite sites are screaming at each other, instead of 2 people, who are quiet, calm and encounter each other with respect and reason?
- Why do the people in the Horror movies always split apart?
- Why are drama moives being watched? And why is nobody trying to calm the situation down in those movies? And why are all the people there not acting rationally?
- Why do we imagine our holydays or our night out so much more exciting, emotional, fulfilling, etc?
- Why do people hurt themselves in a sport, obviously risking way too much in too dangerous situations, instead of just doing the sport normally and safely?
- ....
I'm going to repeat it: The answer to those questions above is, because REASON IS BORING.
If you have a cool addition of real life examples, why reason is boring, I would like to hear it down in the comments :)
What fascinates me, is that with just a 3 word statement, so many complicated questions (or at least i thought they were complicated), can so easily be explained.
What I also like about this sentence, is what it says about life:
--> If your life is boring, there is probably much reason in your life. You have control and you use it for your good.
Because a guy with a shitty life doesn't think, his life is boring.
A guy with depression, an illness or anything else negative also doesn't think, his life is boring.
They think their life is shit, but not boring.
Yeah, they probably would want, that their life is boring, because then there would not be a negative thing to deal with.
So even if your life is boring, at least it's not shit.
So, just be a bit more happy if your life is "boring", because a boring life actually is way better, than society thinks about it.
I initially wanted to stop my here, with a cool and simple statement, but then I thought: "Soo, is that it? Is your life either shitty or boring? That's not a cool choice to choose from. No that can't be"
And then I wondered: "What else, than negative things, make life interesting?", or should I say: "What else makes life "unboring?"
My first answer to that is, that in every life, there is always something negative, therefore, there is always something, that makes your life "unboring".
And currently, I'm not able to finish this thought. It is indeed obvious to me, that my life IS NOT boring, and my life IS NOT shit as well. So this statement "your life is either shitty or boring", is wrong, because mine is not. That's already proof that this is a wrong statement.
So there is, in fact, an other external factor, that has an influence to make ones life unboring, without making ones life shitty.
(Otherwise there would just be the equation "the more unboring your life is, the more shitty your life is" and as I wrote above, already my life is proof that this can't be true.)
And now I'm just trying to phrase what that "external factor" is, but I'm not able to.
What I know is, that that external factor must:
- Have no negative impact on ones life
- Make ones life more exciting/unboring
Maybe I could list some things, that fall into the category of that "external factor", but what exactly that is, I just can't find it.
Maybe it is an individual thing??
Then in the end, I would say that a good strategy for life is, to maximise (or at least mix in more of) that "external factor", to make the life you're living in more exciting/unboring, but not more negative.
-------- Something completely different ----------
And now I'm thinking: "But isn't a boring life shitty as well??" Well now we're going into a paradox, because if a boring life is shitty, and something shitty makes something unboring, that means a boring life is shitty and therfore not boring??
Well, now it gets out of hand, and I want to go to sleep now haha.
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So my final conclusion is:
So even if your life is boring, at least it's not shit.
And just because your life is not boring, doesn't have to mean that it's shit.
I hope, what I wrote made sense to you, dear reader. Once again, I thank you for your time to read my post :)
If you have an addition to my post, just a comment, or you could even find out, what that "external factor" is, gimme a comment, I'd love to philosophise.
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