Reasoning the Unreasonable

There's that famous quote from Jean Renoir, "Everyone has their reasons."  The reasons don't need to be good.  Or rational.  Or make sense.  Humans can cling to just about any flimsy reason.  Humans aren't always "reasonable."  Often times we are totally unreasonable.  Makes for a pretty complicated world.  Everyone running around with their "reasons" and hammering each other with them.

How do you stand outside and above that kind of madness?  It's a hard stance to take.  Pretend to be an alien and sit back and watch human beings do their thing.  But of course, you aren't an alien.  You are a human being too.  Trying hard to be human.  Trying hard to be a being.  Hoping you are reasonable, even as you put all your "reasons" under a microscope too...