when we think about it, the eternal questions of
Kant, of God, freedom and Immortality are questions
of the heart, questions of psychology, not questions of
intellect, of the head…………
Freedom for example, we feel the question of freedom
and not necessarily think about the question of freedom…
like some two year old, we think we should be free to act
as we see fit… but intellectually, we know that we cannot
so freely act… we know the damage that can be inflicted upon
people and society/system if we engage in freedom of action…
Our head/intellect rightly limits us from our desire to act freely…
and when our head/intellect try’s to use skepticism to negate,
to so thoroughly negate that we arrive at nihilism, then the heart
will quietly say, no, no I love… and we find our limits with our heart…
and thus we can never truly be devoid of intellectual beliefs because the
heart will simply announce, I believe, and negate the negation……
we can never be truly be without faith in some beliefs because
the heart will always put an end to such skepticism… even though
the head may allow us to deny the validity of idea’s, beliefs and theories,
the heart will simply say, I believe… and thus explains the right wing…
where evidence and facts mean nothing because their heart says they believe,
regardless of the evidence or the facts…I believe and the heart will hold
faith in idea’s and beliefs and facts that no evidence or facts support…
there is no evidence or facts that support the idea of god… and some believe
that atheism is dangerous and damaging to society… but no matter how far
into of an atheist one become via mind, the heart will simply say yes…
and regardless of the evidence or facts, one will believe in god…
the heart limits the head and the head limits the heart…….
and thus true, absolute skepticism that one may practice
really becomes limited by the heart and its faith, it beliefs…
true nihilism isn’t really possible…… the heart will have its say…
now my mind and heart are united on this idea of
there being no god… thus I don’t have conflict between
the head and the heart in this matter… I am united
and this togetherness allows me peace of mind…
now in other matter, I am conflicted between the heart and the head
and that conflict brings to me, alienation and disconnection…
between me and my soul and me and my society……
I am alienated and disconnected because of my conflict between
my understanding emotionally of capitalism and my knowledge
that I must feed and clothe and shelter my family… I hate capitalism
and I fight it… but I also must feed my family…… how do I resolve this
conflict between my emotional and my intellectual side of me……
and to be honest, I am afraid of walking away from the only economic
system I have ever known… fear is a great motivator and a wonderful
tool for hanging on to for dear life even something that we know is
harmful or dangerous to us… fear prevents us from breaking away from
actions we should take… like sometimes fear prevents us from leaving
another person who is damaging to us, but we are afraid to leave because
the devil we don’t know is scarier then the devil we do know…
and fear is psychological and once again our actions are dictated by
emotional and not mental/intellectual… we must act with one mind
and one heart…… together united… working toward a single goal, taking
a single road together…………
the idea of immortality is a question of the heart… we feel we must live
forever where if we were to actually think about it, living forever is a
nightmare… and I for one, would never accept any attempt to
live forever……… mentally/intellectually I understand what living forever
would mean, no greater horror can be imagined, but emotionally, the heart
wants to live forever… and we have the conflict between the heart and head…
we need the head to steer us into safe terrain and we need the heart
to understand why we need that terrain to be safe……… to be safe,
that is an emotional response… security is a question of the heart,
of emotionalism and the conservative believes in security, believes in
being safe……
the left believes in justice… and justice is equality in actions toward
all people… and too is an emotional response but we can justify
justice on a intellectual level whereas we cannot justify security on
an intellectual level…for most of human existence has been insecure,
the average person in earth’s history has been insecure in life…
the dangers in life where plentiful and quite present…
whereas justice is a “modern” idea……. we can pursue justice
as the practice of equality in modern society…………
does justice and security clash?
justice is where we treat everyone equal and security doesn’t care
if people are treated equally as long as one feels secure…
under the guise of security we can mistreat and abuse and
torture people because the goal is to “feel” safe regardless of
who is hurt and who is damaged……
justice is where we are willing to sacrifice security to achieve
equality for everyone…… which I am willing to do…….
to achieve freedom requires justice, not security, for security is
willing to destroy freedom in the name of security…
and all of this is psychological and we must understand that much
of what we do is psychological, not philosophical…
we must learn to understand ourselves psychological so we can
act philosophical…………
Kropotkin