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... em, there is a reason for every foolishness.

Most people are not as foolish as we think.

Even the value systems we can hardly understand “rationally”—the prejudices that seem so absurdly foolish—have their reasons. It’s just that these “reasons” form in specific, private contexts, so we cannot recognize them as “reasons.”

For example.

If ordinary people who view reading as a “noble and scholarly hobby” are considered “rational,” then those who view reading as “an ...

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