The 50th Law (with 50 Cent)

The Rigid Rationalist: All of us have irrational tendencies. It is
the lasting legacy of our primitive origins. We will never get rid of
them. We are prone to superstitions, to seeing connections between
events that have no connection. We are fascinated by coincidences. We
anthropomorphize and project our feelings onto other people and the
world around us. We secretly consult astrology charts. We must simply
accept this. In fact, we often resort to irrationality as a form of
relaxation—silly jokes, meaningless activities, occasional dabbling in
the occult. Always being rational can be tiresome. But for some people,
this makes them terribly uncomfortable. They experience this
primitive thinking as softness, as mysticism, as contrary to science and
technology. Everything must be clear and analytical in the extreme.
They become devout atheists, not realizing that the concept of God
cannot be proven or disproven. It is a belief either way.

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The repressed, however, always return. Their faith in science and
technology has a religious air to it. When it comes to an argument, they
will impose their ideas with extra intellectual heft and even a touch of
anger, which reveals the stirring of the primitive within and the hidden
emotional need to bully. At the extreme, they will indulge in a love
affair that is most irrational and contrary to their image—the professor
running off with the young model. Or they will make some bad career
choice, or fall for some ridiculous financial scheme, or indulge in some
conspiracy theory. They are also prone to strange shifts in mood and
emotional outbursts as the Shadow stirs. Bait them into just such
overreactions to prick their bubble of intellectual superiority. True
rationality should be sober and skeptical about its own powers and not
publicize itself.