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Originally Posted by loquitur
Logic and rationality ex ante don't necessarily provide you with good road maps of how society can be organized on a macro level. Yes, they are useful in making individual small-bore decisions, but even then things break down because humans are complex and unpredictable. Logic and rationality will help you with societal organization ex post - once something happens and you see how people react, you can evaluate why and figure it out. But trying to predict it is a hit-or-miss affair.
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You could sum this up kind of like this:
"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please"
What does this have to do with the state-sponsored proselytizing on license plates in Indiana and South Carolina? I suppose your anti-anti-clericism kinda sorta makes the Burke-de Maistre pose understandable in this context.