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Brexit from the Inside
The human brain is extremely limited in its ability to reason and human memory is very fallible. We tell ourselves self-aggrandizing stories about how wonderfully clever we are but over the last 70 years clinical data has refuted every one of our inflated notions. In reality most of us are closer to the Keystone Kops than to the very few clever people of our species such as Richard Feynman or Oliver Sachs.
This is why almost all of human history is the story of one blunder after another. We subsequently pretend the parade of follies was because of strategic imperatives or the grand march of progress or political necessity or some other nonsense. We do this so that we can avoid having to accept our own fundamental cognitive limitations. We don’t want to face up to the fact that we’re all inept when it comes to the business of understanding the world around us and inept at making adequate decisions based on this faulty understanding.
But it is essential that we accept just how limited our mental capacities are if we ever want to escape from a never-ending series of self-harms and catastrophic errors.
To this end, we will now stroll back in time to 2016 and over to the dis-United Kingdom and insert ourselves into the cramped and sparsely furnished mind of Mister Johnathan Ruddiman, a fervent Brexit supporter.
