Once upon a time, we believed we were rational beings. That when faced with choices, we weighed pros and cons, costs and benefits, and chose what was best for ourselves and our future. That was the promise of Rational Choice Theory, the foundation of decades of economics, political science, and public policy. But what if that promise was always a myth?

In Goodbye Rationality, we dive into the ruins of a broken assumption: that humans act logically. Behavioral Economics has exposed what Rational Choice Theory refused to see, our decisions are driven by biases, emotion, fear, tribalism, and impulse more than reason. From voting against our own interests to denying climate science, from panic-buying to policy paralysis, our irrational choices are no longer isolated errors. They are systemic. Predictable. Dangerous.

This episode explores how Irrational Choice Theory has replaced the rational actor model, not as a theory of dysfunction, but as a terrifyingly accurate roadmap of human behavior. And what happens when 8 billion people are steering a fragile planet using broken compasses?

Welcome to a future shaped not by logic, but by loss aversion, sunk cost fallacies, and cognitive dissonance. This isn’t just an academic shift, it’s an existential red flag. Tune in if you’re brave enough to ask: What happens to civilization when reason checks out?

Because the end of rationality isn’t theoretical. It’s now.