Idea Framing, Metaphors, and Your Brain - George Lakoff

I think you miss the limitations of reason. Emotions give us a reason to reason. For example, if I feel 0 emotion towards my mother and father, there comes a point in time where killing them and taking my inheritance becomes the most rational thing to do. Yet if I factor in the emotion of love, this becomes completely irrational. With me?

You are partially right when you say emotions give us a reason to reason, but you forget that emotions, as opposed to mere sensation, are value-responses. You love the ones you have reason to love. You love only those who share your same rationally-chosen values. So, you see- rationality is involved even in love. All emotions are simply lightning-fast subconscious value judgments. Also, anyone who has read Crime and Punishment knows that it is not in one's self-interest to kill others.

What i took from this: Repetitive experiences cause our brain to make connections between various sensory inputs occurring at different locations in the brain. Forming such connections, e.g. between mommy-close-hug and warm temperature feeling, causes us to possess hundreds of metaphors common to all languages, e.g. huggy, emotive people are warm; and detached, non-touchy people are cold. I'm trying to understand precisely how the brain forms these connections, especially via triune brain lens.

Reason is acquired through decades of education, historic hindsight, and mental discipline.

I think there was a quote by Hitler addressing this issue: "We are now at the end of the Age of Reason, the intellect has grown autocratic, and has become a disease of life."

I also quote from Goering: "As for me, I am subjective, I commit myself to my people and acknowledge nothing else on Earth. I thank my maker for having created me without a sense of objectivity."

Hitler also told to Rauschning: "I need men who will not stop to think if they're ordered to know someone down!"

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The Hitler quotes are from Rauschnings's 2 books on Hitler's "table talk". They are recollected quotes and not verbatim. Hitler did say many similar things in recorded speaches. For instance, he told a court at Leipzig, in 1928 "Our movement is a spiritual revolution of the masses." Goebbles, in his diary, records his belief that the Party is his new Church. Fascism is all about an idealized "spirit of the community", which is adamantly opposed to reasoned analysis.

This kind of thinking will destroy self-esteem and lead to a collapse of western civilization accompanied by wide-spread irrationality, collectivism, and emotionalism.

This science is evidence based. The Self-esteem movement has been proven to be a failure because the model did not match up with reality. You can't decide without emotion, removing emotion makes you autistic and incapable of decision. Expecting to reach a rational result when we are not rational organisms is to live in denial. We have to accept what we are and work with that not try and become something we can't.

Could it be that we are all animals? That in my opinion, is a fairly low estimate of humanity. If we reject the faculty of reason, we are left with the way of the jungle: force. If you deny reason, then you uphold force. Atomic dances and glandular squirting in the mind is characteristic of apes, not of skyscraper-builders, moon-walkers, and eradicators of disease.