[caldrail]

But that's only true if the progress is limited to the irrational man's perspective, indicating an inward focus of development and quite possibily without reference to the enviroment beyond his immediate experience. Since warp travel could not occur without finance and oversight, being a complex and expensive research project, it therefore follows that the irrationbal man is directed by rational men holding the purse strings and thus his irrationality is constrained, or perhaps widened in scope to encompass other individuals, rational or not. Or something like that.