Cold Reason

Many times I have been called cold. Most people view a strict and rigid belief in the rational and logical to be of a non-emotional nature. One individual literally told me, “it just ain’t got any soul.” I have been called “uncaring”, “uncompassionate”, “boring”, “eccentric” and “heartless”, because I do not abandon my mind during times of social or cultural conflict.

However, I propose the opposite to be true: logic is the basis of the greatest of all feelings — respect for the human condition. Without reason and logic, our actions become incoherent. Rather than doing something because it follows a proper order in reality, because it “makes sense”, we do things on the basis of whim — chaotic actions.

Look to all the problems of the world: Violence, war, war, poverty, drug addiction — every human problem is caused by a rejection of reason. When one party abandons reason to solve a problem, violence and war become their solution — coercion, force, state action. When someone abandons reason on the basis of their actions revolving their desired partners, manipulation and sometimes even rape become the solution. When individuals abandon reason in economics, poverty befalls them, lives are destroyed.

It is said that reason is cold, heartless and “ain’t got any soul.” How foolish. In reason we find the salvation of man’s problems — the answer to economics, the answer to social quagmire, the answer to policy, the answer to questions.

I turn the tables on those who espouse feeling and tradition in spite of cold reason — it is you who have no soul, because it is you who destroy your world by closing your eyes. Choose reason and we will be saved — abandon it completely, and mankind is doomed.