Raw Emotions and Raw Reason

Every one who has had the misfortune to talk with people in the heart or on the edge of mental disorder, knows that their most sinister quality is a horrible clarity of detail; connecting of one thing with another in a map more elaborate than a maze…He is not hampered by a sense of humour or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience…The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason (Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, 2001, p17-18).

We live in a world of raw emotions. Because our emotions rule supreme, the most powerful person is the victim.

The victim by definition is powerless to change their situation. If a victim could grow, then they would no longer be a victim.

This creates a strange hierarchy. As long as the victim stays a slave to their victimhood, they are also able to enslave others to feel sorry for them. They are enslaved themselves and they enslave others.

However, it seems like that world of raw emotions is crashing down. And I’m nervous about the next world. The world of raw reason.

As Chesterton points out above, “The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.” A man who has no sense of humor, no charity, or no emotions is insane.

Jesus repeated the law when He said, “…you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30 NKJV). You can’t love the LORD with only your heart. You can’t love the LORD with only your mind. Choosing one or the other will drive you mad.

What do you think?
Joseph