Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa

Rationality vs Emotionality

  • Although it lies, it is still necessary to hear, especially women, that emotions prevail over rationality, and that a correct decision cannot be taken. In recent weeks, I have heard the same argument from two men, speaking of energy.

11 March 2024 - 06:00

The vibration caused by the argument has led me to remove the dust from psychological notes and I found the difference between emotions and feelings. The former are spontaneous, universal, own and unconscious. Emotions ensure survival, deliver us from dangers and bring us here from generation to generation. Feelings, on the other hand, are maintained over time and are a consequence of emotions and thoughts, which seem to lead to the interpretation of emotions. They emerge in the prefrontal lobe, where planning, reflection and decision are produced. The rapporteurs therefore confuse the concepts of "emotion" and "feeling".

Nuances nuances draw attention to the return to schemes of rationality vs emotion, as if both had no connection with each other. In any case, it is curious – to say something – that the emotional area in which it opposes an opinion is still being neglected. Very curious.

This dichotomy has also been used to justify the lack of ethics of some activities. In the 19th century animal husbandry treaties, the definition referred to the science that studies the growth, improvement and exploitation of domestic and forestry animals, with the aim of achieving maximum productivity and high performance.

Of course, in this way of working, feelings did not exist – they are – neither of animals, nor of people, but of objectivity. If we were to go to the treaties then, we would not find the word "sustainability" – now yes, let us continue to exploit, but in a cool way –. The spirit of "exploitation" is maintained with some green strokes. The objective remains productivity and performance. The animal is still an element that doesn't feel. The one that shows the least empathy with the animal condemned to live in this situation is the thousandth and animalist.

A century and a half later, in many other areas, if not in most cases, the same philosophy applies to any element, even to people, that is above or below the earth. The definition is repeated, which constructs the way of being in the world and looking at the world.

The issue of energy is no exception, and those who look at reality and life from excel tables accuse us of a lack of rationality to which we uncover the dark aspects of ongoing energy colonialism, emotions seem too heavy. As if there were no precedents, as if the events in other territories were not repeated here, even with another appearance.

Thus, it is difficult to avoid feelings of injustice; it is difficult not to feel anything about the destruction of nature and, therefore, of the lives of all. Not being able to reflect or organize or decide against, because everyone's lives are at stake.

Is it by chance that the proponents of this "rationality" are often men? Do those who don't distinguish emotions and feelings feel nothing? Do you really believe that your pragmatic and technical thinking in steel is free from the sin of feelings?

How can we believe that the same rationality that is making it impossible to live on this planet, in its literal and strict sense, should save us?


You are interested in the channel: Ingurumena
For a quality public rail service for the Ribera

In recent weeks we have been reading "proposals" for the recovery of the railway line Castec-Soria and the maintenance of the Tudela train station in its current location, or for the construction of a new high-speed station outside the urban area with the excuse of the supposed... [+]


Regeneration of the beach of Waukee

The restoration of the natural characteristics of the beach of Waukee began three decades ago and continues without interruption in the staged restoration to counterclockwork.

Samuel (Bizkaia) is an exceptional space, very significant from the natural and social point of view... [+]


Cloud reduction to the detriment of climate change
Clouds are declining, which has a significant impact on climate change, a group of NASA researchers concluded. The analysis of the Terra satellite data reveals that over the past 20 years there has been a gradual but steady decline in cloud coverage. The paper was presented at... [+]

Los Angeles in the ravine of extensive urbanism: hundreds of homes burned by fires
Los Angeles, one of the largest cities in the United States and the world, has been surprised by the terrible fires and 150,000 people are already displaced by the authorities. The mayor has declared a state of emergency, hundreds of homes have been burned by flames in different... [+]

2025-01-08
SHORT STORY
Interior
“We believe that in the face of the cultural offensive of dystopias and the individualistic and desperate reality in general, we must represent utopias to be more mentally and emotionally stronger,” he distributed the awards of the contest of accounts and translations of the... [+]

2025-01-08 | Garazi Zabaleta
Aina Socies Fiol
"In each island of the Balearic Islands there are many varieties of plants that do not exist in the others"
Many of them will join the Balearic Islands only with Oporleku, but on the island of Mallorca they have a living movement around agroecology and consumption: The Associació de Varietats Locals de Mallorca (association of local seed varieties) is an example of this. In early... [+]

2025-01-08 | Nicolas Goñi
How do you turn soils into weather aids?
Extreme drought and rainfall have become a new norm. Among the increasing economic and ecosystem damages, those sustained by cultivation are not the lowest. These are soils that desiccate in times of drought or that cannot absorb all the water in large rains. How to become part... [+]

January, the dream of the walnut
I painted with purple color the first month of the year, with the color of creativity, imagination, knowledge and spirituality.

2025-01-06 | Jakoba Errekondo
The need to live with each other
A Chilean friend has told me a story about his village and left me a mouth full of implants. It is from a plant there known as “quintral”, Tristerix corimbosus. It lives in the warm forests of southern Chile and Argentina, and the plant is very similar to the tongue (Viscum... [+]

2025-01-06 | Garazi Zabaleta
Trebatu Association
Project to boost relief in the primary sector in Gipuzkoa
The Trebatu association has been in operation for years in Ipar Euskal Herria, with the objective that those people who want to start this project can be trained beforehand. Taking as a model the project of Ipar Euskal Herria and pulling the same idea, in Gipuzkoa the... [+]

2025-01-06 | Nagore Zaldua
Cantabrian calm
Works of art of the warning
Colorful, bright, in shapes as strange as beautiful, nudibranchs seem to be coming beings from another planet. These naked creatures of the seabed dress the vivid colors of the crests of the 1980s and the architectural fashion of the great names of the Parisian seam.

Ukraine leaves eastern Europe without Russian gas, broken with Gazprom
The Government of Volodymyr Zelensky has not renewed its contract with Gazprom and, on Wednesday morning, the Russian company has suspended the flow of gas to supply eastern Europe.

2024-12-31 | Mikel Aramendi
ANALYSIS
Works and works to diffuse the yellow line
It is a propitious time to praise the achievements of the past and, moreover, to reclaim the expectations of the future. And so it is in China, I fear. Incidentally, it is not surprising that in the last few hours of December, in anticipation of the planned plan, the excavation... [+]

Pastures and flares, a tradition with collateral damage
In New Year’s Eve many of the participants will play with pickles, flares, tracts, rockets and other pyrotechnic devices. And there will be repeated accidents, interventions by firefighters and children, the elderly and animals suffering a loud noise. Prohibitions, limitations... [+]

Eguneraketa berriak daude