In Game Theory, you build everything on the assumption of 'rational and selfish behaviour'. Traits that are not necessarily observed in real life. And the reason 'rationality' and 'selfishness' are assumed, is that you can predict a person's actions only in these cases. As Rhett Butler says in Gone With the Wind, he'd prefer to work with selfish people, because you know they'll only do what's good for them, and hence they are predictable. But 'good' and 'charitable' people on the other hand, could swing in their loyalties quite fast.
I've noticed that most 'smart' people, are just the ones that show the most rationality. They are the chessplayers who have all the moves figured out and always do what makes most sense. And I get to meet a lot of these people nowadays - the ones who have the IRR of every action and every piece of effort all figured out.
But, as the saying goes, it is not the rational people who are the hope of humanity. It is the irrational. It is those who go out do things for no obvious gain, the artists who follow their hearts, or the Mother Teresa's who spend their lives improving the lives of total strangers. The ones who dance in the rain. They make the human race more interesting. And more 'human'.
'Irrational' is a common compliant against women. And I think it is a valid charge. I cannot imagine why any 'rational' woman would put up with the majority of the men out there. Or why she'd willingly go thru 9 months of pregnancy followed by a lifetime of the traumas and heartbreaks of motherhood. It must be the same irrationality that makes her insist that 'peach' and 'melon' are colours. Or that the pattern of the curtains really matter.Women are irrational. And therein lies hope...
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