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You're a rationalist if there's a portrait of you in an attic somewhere getting increasingly irrational everyday.
I don’t get it.
The point is that none of us is rational.
Dorian Gray never aged because he had a magic picture of himself which actually aged for him; his image in the portrait got older and older even as he himself stayed the same age.
So a true rationalist would have a magic picture of himself "being irrational", as humans do, in his stead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray
That’s the only reference that came to my head, but how is it related to rationalism specifically?