Max Weber really hit it on the head with his idea of
bureaucracy and rationality. What I
really take an interest in is his six basic characteristics of rationality. This idea in my opinion is what keeps
everybody’s life in order? For an
example we as humans are afraid of change and we like things consistent. We like to know what we are getting. Let’s take a look at a franchise restaurant
such as Denny’s. When you walk into a
Denny’s you are expecting the same service and the same food every time. Now imagine if you walked into a Denny’s and
receives a totally different experience and different food. In this case you
would probably freak-out, because I know I would. You would expect a certain level of
efficiency from them because you were promised it. Going off this idea, I think you can relate
it to religion as well. We got rules and
religions all design to keep us save, but when those rules start getting broken
we start questioning our faith. What I
mean by this is if we believe in something all our life but along the way found
it to be false, that will shake and scare us a bit. So I guess what I am trying to say is that
rationality helps us cope with daily activity with a guideline and if these
guidelines were to change it’ll impact us for the better or for worst. I am using a picture with a quote from one of
my favorite movie The Dark Knight to help illustrate this idea, which can be
found below.
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