Reading these words hurt, despite enjoying your prose style. John Lewis urged us to “get into good trouble.” If you’re an idiot, you’re a good idiot. Sadly of course, doing good must often be its own reward. Otherwise, society would be crippled if people only did good in order to get recognition, income or applause.

I agree with you, growing disregard for reasoning is seriously damaging the world. Advocating for reasoning has been my cause too. For 20 years, I’ve been working on a way to comfortably steer people toward reasoning. It’s encapsulated in https://alexbennett-ap.medium.com/truth-units-a-new-theory-of-truth-for-our-post-truth-world-9734119080c2. My motivation, and its connection to your motivation, is addressed in https://medium.com/philosophytoday/the-will-to-reason-925c097411f1.