Quiroga - 20

 REASON AND EMOTION

That reason does not get emotional, nor does emotion reason, this is one more of the many legends in which our humanity still believes, despite bragging about having conquered a civilization beyond belief.

Reason and emotion are antagonistic only in the distorted fantasy of our humanity, because the two go hand in hand side by side, feeding each other; this, and not any other, is the real reality in which we all live all the time, and to deny it (as we do) it becomes necessary to invent arguments that seem very astute and intelligent, but what kind of intelligence would that be, that we put at the service of ignoring reality and its natural functioning?

Worst of all is that now, before resolving its conceptual mistakes, our humanity projects the mistaken functioning of intelligence into technologies that replicate the mistake.

See what a strange and peculiar thing: Because we are an intelligent kingdom, we invented the unconscious to try to ignore our viscerally emotional truths. Because we are intelligent, we also invent lies to ignore what is inconvenient for us.

But also, because we are an intelligent kingdom, we have the potential to aspire to be noble and elevated, and to stop pretending we are ignorant and unconscious, indulging in the dubious pleasure of mutually despising each other.

However, aspiring to nobility and elevation does not happen by inertia, one has to want to resolve mysteries and mistakes, and dedicate as much time to this as we dedicate to entertaining ourselves by following useless things on our cell phones.