[throwaway14356]

My own model is pretty good. (pun of the decade) I could fully explain it but it says it wouldn't be understood. (lame I know) But we can start with dismissing the rational actor. It was something I loved to pretend to be true. This was irrational. There is nothing to suggest people act rationally! We all have heads full of nonsense. Just wait 1000 years and the common man will be laughing his ass off. There is no reason to think we are the exceptional generation. We ponder all these errors we believe to be facts and "rationally" arrive at erroneous conclusions. Then, now that we've figured things out it will be a rare exception for us to implement it. In stead we do what we always did and stubbornly defend our actions even if we know its wrong.

It is astonishing to see what we've accomplished despite these rather large shortcomings.

If you disagree, how do you know this emotion isnt triggered by what you would like to be real?

When convinced of anything one grows a bias blind spot of biblical volume. It is a tremendous struggle to look around it.