Actually those people are probably right when they charge that pushing rationality often goes hand in hand with pushing an ideology.
And ever worse, people pushing "rationality" often aren't actually pushing rationality (defined as: making maps that better correspond to territory).
If a random person came and tried to teach (their definition of) rationality at schools, in absence of more specific information, I would probably be afraid.
Yes, a lot of those people don't think in terms of maps.
As far the definition goes I'm even more radical and would say: "Making maps that allow you to better navigate the territory."
Does anyone know of a good article that illustrates how society is generally irrational, and how making society more rational would have huge benefits, because it'd be a very high level action?
I'm writing an essay about how to improve education, and one of my proposals is that a core part of the curriculum should be rationality. I believe that doing this would have huge benefits to society, and want to explain why I think this, but I'm having trouble. Any thoughts?
Edit: Part of Raising the Sanity Waterline talks about common ways in which people are irrational. However, they're all links to longer Less Wrong articles. Preferably, I'd like to illustrate it in a few sentences/paragraphs.