In these, the Housewife's most glaring moments of
unreason, Bella would shut her up and knock her on the table, apostrophising her with the compliment, 'O you ARE a stupid old Donkey!
After this her mind made excursions into the dark of the air, or settled upon the surface of the sea, which could be discovered over there, or with equal
unreason it returned to its couch of bracken beneath the stars of midnight, and visited the snow valleys of the moon.
And though the
unreason of their revilings was patent -- since no one could hope to reach the lamp-room, which was forward -- he became greatly distressed.
A state of irredeemable societal degradation exists where large numbers of people 'have grown used to their own
unreason; chaos is their cosmos; and the whirlwind is the breath of their nostrils.' 'These nations,' Chesterton lamented, 'are really in danger of going off their heads en masse...'
Also, if
unreason (as opposed to reason) is the key to the truth, how is one to know which brand of
unreason to adopt (if neither one makes sense, and both disagree with one another)?
American historian Richard Wolin, in his complex tome The Seduction of
Unreason, tries to demonstrate how, ever since the early 20th century, the impulse to overthrow an established order especially an order constructed on the principals of economic and social modernity has ended up romanticising '
unreason' and chaos.
Scientists also issued a letter urging Indians "to vote against inequality, intimidation, discrimination and
unreason." Some Bollywood artists and writers have issued a similar appeal.
He must have known, as a man of the cloth, that at the end of the day, it is not
unreason but equity that governs man's estate, where, for every oppressor, a day of reckoning always comes, as does for the oppressed a day of grace.
Moderate voices should try to prevail and arrest the downslide into
unreason, because the other side is within the bounds of moderation.
Human rights, participatory government, and social justice have lost global influence, and a thread of
unreason runs from the Taliban, through the Tea Party, to Trump, threatening women's rights, social justice, and democracy.
The Reasoning of
Unreason: Universalism, Capitalism and Disenlightenment
LAHORE -- Ibne Khaldun was the last great Muslim scientist 700 years ago and after him the Muslims never engaged with science as with the beginning of fourteenth century the Islamic world came under the sway of religious scholars who disregard and disparage science, said Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy while speaking on, 'Science and Reason in the Age of
Unreason' at the Centre for Governance and Policy of Information Technology University (ITU), the Punjab, here today.
His most recent books are Breaking Democracy's Spell (2014), Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy (2006) and The Cunning of
Unreason: Making Sense of Politics (2001).
RMT North West regional organ iser John Tilley denied the union's leadership was behaving
unreason ably, saying instead that its actions reflected the concerns of its mem bership.
