But the real universe is always one step beyond logic .”~ Frank Herbert, Dune
Science fiction writers are apt to imagine that their understandings of human nature are much more in line with what is, rather than that which is taken for granted by the herd the result of social engineering. Every human person is a unique expression of what it is to be human, reflecting the distinctive individual.
Each of us responds to life's stimuli differently, so much so that a dozen people watching a television drama may offer not just different, but differing interpretations of the programme they have just finished watching. Each of sees all that we believe, we are seeing.
The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason.
~Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm's reasoning may not sit well with those who believe that they hold the monopoly on understanding the mysteries of life, the result of their intellectual wherewithal being superior to the rest of the herd. IQ numbers, and bell curves often speak to nothing more than the appearance of a superior intellect fed by an agenda.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.~ William Butler Yeats
Intuition might well be the expression of one of life's concealed gifts supplied to equip the human person with the ability to read between the lines, even extend ones insights beyond that which appears at the end of ones nose. The experienced traveller learns through experience that intuitive insight has a habit of intervening to provide its recipient with the road best taken.
"At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?"
An answer: "Where was man?"
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