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You are irrational.

'Irrationality is cognition without rationality.

Irrationality can be broken down into two types: "pre-rationality," which is cognition before rationality, and "post-rationality," which is cognition after rationality.

Post-rationality is the deconstruction of rational grand-narratives, arising from exploring these narratives to their rational logical conclusions. When these conclusions run contra to that which the initially constructed narrative attempted to set forth, the resulting state of mind is post-rationality. So, for example: a scientist who rationally understands that a given culture's myths may not be factually true while still representing metaphoric and archetypal truths, would be said to be post-rational if he engaged in the retelling of these myths and the playing out of the the ceremonies associated with the myths. He would be "irrational" in that he is retelling stories which he knows are not factually true and performing ceremonies which he knows do not have meaning outside of metaphor and archetype, but he is not being pre-rational (which would be simply believing the myths without any rational thought), he is being post-rational.