The fixed

If you are sore at heart you don’t see things aright. The pain adds flavors and colors to everything you see and make them appear twisted or ill-shaped.

This is nothing new in the world; there have never been a human being who could cut off this strange thing called the heart from the scheme of things and sub serve the behest of the intellect.

In fact what we call logic is not something primarily based on the intellect at all. It’s mostly an effort to interpret a situation in the light of our hearts desire. Socrates interpreted beauty as usefulness, Schopenhauer as will. Who is there to hold that both the stands are not derived of some emotional involvements?

We fashion world views according to the most intense set of emotions that we encounter in our lives. For example poverty drives people towards socialism; no amount of preaching of the well-fed priests would induce them to think that it’s as hard for the rich to get into the heaven as it’s hard for a camel to go through the needle hole. To their minds the rich may find a way to enlarge a needle hole enough to get their camels easily through.

Such things have happened before!


They don’t want a heaven somewhere in the future, they want it now or they want a heaven they have some involvement in creating.

One cannot blame them can one? The guy’s are not really thinking about the general welfare of the people most of the time, what they have in mind are the things they had to go through in their lives to survive. Those hardships put them with others undergoing the same predicaments.

What I am trying to suggest is that logic and reason are subservient to the promptings of emotions than otherwise. The Alexander or the British Empire was only interested in conquests and not whether they were logical in nature. The ‘white’ supremacists believe they are the only race loved by god and it’s visible in their skin color. The Jews believe that they are the chosen race by god, the Muslims does not lag much behind.

To the Marxists the world would only be freed through their system.

If there is anything common among these different faiths, that is the total lack of real and hard thought behind their different and opposing stands. They are all constructed on the foundations of emotionalism. Volumes are written in support of these different faiths by their followers. All of them would quote the texts or situations or happenings that would be useful to their claims alone.

It’s all a matter of heart, not mind, all the materials that are introduced in support is prompted by an illogical desire to save one’s own faith.

I am not claiming that I have stated hitherto unknown facts about life; many others have done these in more logical fashion for us. But these thoughts came to my mind as I was trying to discern some meaning into the actions of certain of my colleagues who are in some sort of fix currently.