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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Rationalization is a [mental gymnastics](mental_gymnastics.md) technique (an "ar
**Example**: [capitalists](capitalism.md) often use rationalization to justify or reject pretense based on what's best for them like this:
- If pretense is bad for the capitalist, he rationalizes against is; e.g. when he has a chance to rip someone off, he'll do it and argues: "Yes, I need money and will do what I have to do to get it. Should I pretend I don't care about money when really I do? I just don't want to lie, I am just being honest!" Here he justifies lack of pretense by claiming it's a good thing (i.e. something he "should" do) as part of "honesty".
- If pretense is bad for the capitalist, he rationalizes against it; e.g. given a chance to rip someone off, he does it and argues: "Yes, I need [money](money.md) and will do what I have to do to get it. Should I pretend I don't care about money when really I do? I just don't want to lie, I am just being honest!" Here he justifies lack of pretense by claiming it's a good thing (i.e. something he "should" do) as part of "honesty".
- If pretense is good for the capitalist, he rationalizes its use; e.g. when he's doing an office job he hates and his boss shows up, he will pretend to be enjoying the work and to like the boss, even if he in fact hates him. If this is obvious to his colleagues and they confront him about it, he responds: "Yeah, you'd have to be crazy to show disgust for your work in front of your boss, right? Everyone does it, it's part of the social game and everyone must do it so that the game works, it's a culturally established behavior that everyone knows about and I just don't want to cause trouble for everyone around by rebelling against cultural expectancy." Here he justifies pretense by "respecting culture", "sustaining peace", "ends justifying means" etc.
It's clear the capitalist just does what's in his personal interest and just [spits out some keywords](shortcut_thinking.md) that are meant to conjure and illusion of "rationality" to hide the selfish motives behind. Indeed, this only fools a retard, but practically everyone in society is a retard, so this technique works every time.