Rational Double Standards

The practice of applying different standards of rationality to different people or positions—deeming one's own reasoning rational while dismissing similar reasoning from opponents as irrational. Rational Double Standards are what allow people to see their own biases as insights, their own emotions as intuitions, their own leaps as logic—while seeing the same things in others as errors. They're the cognitive machinery of hypocrisy, the engine of special pleading, the foundation of every double standard that privileges one's own side.

Example: "His gut feeling was intuition; her gut feeling was irrational emotion. Rational Double Standards in action: same phenomenon, different labels, depending on who was experiencing it. The double standard was invisible to him, which is how it worked."

by Dumu The Void March 10, 2026

Rationality Power

A close cousin of logic power, but broader: it's the social authority granted to those who are seen as embodying rationality itself. The person with rationality power isn't just making logical arguments; they are perceived as the "reasonable one" in the room. Their preferences are assumed to be well-considered, their judgments sound, and their biases invisible. It's the power to have your irrationalities overlooked because you've successfully claimed the mantle of "the rational person."

Example: "She got her way in every meeting because she had rationality power—everyone just assumed her position was the smart one, even when it wasn't."

by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026

Rationality Hegemony

The cultural dominance of a specific model of rationality—typically means-end calculation, utility maximization, and consistent preference ordering—as the only legitimate standard for sane, competent decision-making. Rationality hegemony operates when economic models of rational choice become the measure of all human behavior, when anyone who makes decisions differently is pathologized as "irrational," and when alternative frameworks for good decision-making (based on virtue, relationship, tradition, or spiritual insight) are simply invisible. It's the assumption that Homo economicus isn't a model but a description of how humans should be.

Example: "His decision to care for his aging parents instead of taking the high-paying job was treated as 'economically irrational'—a perfect example of rationality hegemony mistaking one model of choice for the only model."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

Rational Orthodoxy

The established, institutionalized set of beliefs about rationality that dominate Western thought—the often-unexamined assumptions about what counts as rational, how rational decisions are made, and who counts as rational. Rational orthodoxy includes specific commitments: that rationality means following logic, that rational agents maximize utility, that rationality is universal, that emotions are irrational, that rationality is the highest human capacity, that rational consensus is possible. Like all orthodoxies, it provides a framework for evaluating thought and action, but it functions as ideology when it becomes dogmatic—making a particular conception of rationality seem like the only conception, obscuring how rationality varies across cultures and contexts, and delegitimizing alternative ways of thinking (intuitive, emotional, relational, spiritual). Rational orthodoxy determines what arguments are considered "reasonable," what decisions are "rational," and who counts as a "rational person" versus "irrational."

Example: "He dismissed her decision as 'irrational' because it didn't maximize utility—not because he'd considered different kinds of rationality, but because rational orthodoxy had made his conception of reason feel like Reason itself. The orthodoxy's power is making one kind of thinking feel like the only kind."

by Dumu The Void March 17, 2026

Ranion

A guy you want to avoid at all costs.
The type of guy who talks over you every chance he gets, lies about pointless things, extremely greasy and gets zero play.

“Yo bro Ranion’s over there”
“Ah shit man let’s bounce”

Or

“Dude you’re acting like a total Ranion”

by Matt50baller March 18, 2026

Rayin

Rayin is often referred to as "a beacon". They are often seen wearing thigh-highs and short skirts. Their thighs could crush your scull.

Hunter: Damn your such a Rayin
Alex: I agree
Rayin: Thanks guys!

by DreDigga May 15, 2025

Rational Mind

You don't have a rational mind though...

Hym "And that's not what happened is it? Your omitting the targeted harassment that resembles the delusions of reference commonly associated with schizophrenia and you're doing it explicitly because you intend to continue using it in spite of the fact that IT GOT YOUR KIDS MURDERED! Wrap your 'rational mind' around this one... No matter how you slice it... You did it and it got your kids murdered. Broadcasting it to try to convince people that it doesn't proves only that you are, in fact, doing it and the fact that it got your kids murdered is IMMUTABLE."

by Hym Iam July 26, 2025