Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Today, humanity has achieved incredible technological and scientific development, but along with it, it seems, it has lost its mind. How can a species that created a vaccine against Covid-19 in less than a year believe in fake news, conspiracy theories and quackery? Maybe we're just irrational by nature?

Pinker ruthlessly rejects this claim and proves that both in primitive tribes and in the most technologically advanced cities, people are born intelligent and rational. Humanity has simply forgotten the benefits of the powerful reasoning tools we discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, and causality.

We are afraid of change, so we always draw wrong conclusions, relying on habits and intuition. But in reality, rationality is only a way to get what we want. It is she who guides us to the best choice and helps this world not slide into chaos.