Quiroga - 375

 NEITHER REASON NOR PASSION

Our humanity has a passion for dehumanization, inventing methods, procedures and ideologies to distance itself from loving and understanding treatment between people, replacing this fundamental need with positions that exalt a few while oppressing the majority.

So deep-rooted and normalized is the tendency towards dehumanization that it is not uncommon for sensitive and intelligent people to raise the argument that our humanity is a malignant cancer on this planet, and that the apocalypse would be better to happen soon to eradicate our kingdom of nature.

And dehumanization adopts intelligent and argumentative airs, just to artificially prove that human life is not for all humans, only for some, and those who unconsciously imagine themselves to be superior continue the process of dehumanization, imagining that they are saved, regardless of the rest being oppressed.

In this movement, rationalist ideology is a good example of dehumanization, because it orders our humanity to stick to facts verifiable by the physical organs of the senses to determine what is or is not true, supposedly with the good intention of avoiding prejudices and passions that cloud understanding and make us make decisions that are not based on facts, but on speculations (in accordance with rationalist ideology).

Now, if the passionality of our humanity is not a convincing fact that we are less rational than we pretend, and that our passionality indicates that there is another dimension of experience that cannot be explained with reason, then rationalist ideology also represents another type of passion, now with a face of reason.

One thing is certain, neither reason nor passion, per se, humanize the human being, because humanization does not occur through inertia, but through decision.

It is really important that people join forces, because if they continue to pretend to be right and this leads to discord, then all the effort made at this moment will go down the drain. Better not.