(This one is related to this blog’s name. I wrote a little about this in the What’s this? page.)

Maybe it’s just me, but from reading magazine articles, blogs, books, and talking to people, there’s one thing I hear (in some way or other) quite a lot: something to the effect of:

• “The mind isn’t really important”
• “Emotions and feelings are what really matter, not mere logic or brain power”
• “People think way too much. Things would be much better if we just ‘went with the flow’”
• “An intelligent person (geek, nerd, egghead, etc.) is cold and unfeeling, unable to deal with people”
• “Reason had its chance and failed; today is the age of feelings”
• “The mind is fallible; for real enlightenment, you must go into the higher realm of feelings, of emotion”
• “Your problem is that you think too hard about things”
• “The really important things can’t be understood, only felt“
• “The heart is superior to the brain”
• “‘Truth’ isn’t a hard fact, it depends on what we believe or desire”
• “All of the world’s problems are caused by too much cold logic and too little emotion”

and so on. In short, people complain that everyone “thinks too much”, and that we should let go of that and care more about our emotions. Reason is seen as “outdated”.

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