Sentences with phrase «social irrationality»

Jim, My bet is that before CO2 hits 500 ppm the social irrationality that has suppressed nuclear power will fade away.

Man's inability to solve the problem of war has been a reminder of the strength of social irrationality.

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The absurd irrationality of social and economic systems that despise the living community for the profit of a minority human elite, converting all source of life into market products, has forced us to migrate to distant planets to safeguard human survival.

Failing to appreciate the salience of social infrastructure and the irrationality of the organizational environment, both liberals and conservatives have spent a lot of time pursuing questions of limited utility... In hindsight, we would have done better had we given more attention to trying to figure out how to implement anything under such inauspicious circumstances.»

Using the market as both a geographic and ideological center, Heading Southwest [About Practice # 2] aims to shed light on the macro meaning of the Essex Market's inner and parallel social functions, as a metaphor of a universal need: the human desire to discover and find the irrationality within reality, the extraordinary within ordinary and the mythology within facts, in turn revealing a fragile desire to fictionalize reality by threading together a narrative that feels more impressive than the real.

Mehretu's «Cairo» (from 2013), recalls the Freudian overlays of history and the unconscious that are the essence of the megalopolis lifestyle; Bradford's «Corner of Desire and Piety» (2008) refers to the social failures of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe and by extension the frailty and irrationality of the urban fabric; and the El Anatsui tapestry, «Red Black,» 2010, undulating on the wall, recalls the skin of the museum itself, woven of many pieces, with a curious declivity dramatizing its strength.

Inside Ball's narrative the project posits a psychotechnical artifact, which continuously transmutes anxiety, fear, irrationality, delusions and superstition irrespective of political, scientific, social and economic breakthrough and reformation.

«Delirious» is the first exhibition to consider the fascination with irrationality holistically and to ground it in contemporaneous social and political events.

But many social psychologists credit Kahneman and Tversky with a profoundly original theory of the human mind, one that exposes systematic, unconscious sources of irrationality, just as Freud's idea of the unconscious was taken to do by previous generations of psychologists.