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You must have experience before reasoning is useful.
Reasoning leads to mutually incommensurate outcomes and antinomies: it is a patch over a tricky piece of reality.
To govern the direction (and hence the usefulness) of "reasoning" we need to look to the fabric of reality, instead of being captured by the delights of assumptive theories.
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Nature is a concept that needs to be clarified.
If nature exists outside of areas man has civilized, then it is an artificial notion of otherness (an alien space to which we visit.) Extended, we are not natural but temporary inhabitants keeping nature at bay.
It has colonial roots and enlightenment germination and harbors the seeds of bad faith, yet it is still the soil from which we derive sustenance.
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Both religious and scientific sects believe: they have faith in their truth.
This requires a series of steps, but without possession of all knowledge, a leap is required into the surety of belief, and from belief, we make claims on truth.
In this way, Truth is both fact and not fact, real and fabricated, composed of, confused with, but not synonymous with truth.
To explain: a fact does not require explanation or reasoned steps. And yet, truth is founded on a path or sequence of steps, with each step being a small leap. Truth becomes the consensus of several small beliefs, with a smattering of facts.
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The attitude: somebody must lead, this person is leading, and the only way we get somewhere is to hitch up and pull together. Any direction and action are better than none. Could you stop slowing us down with dissent and questions?
There is a surety from intentional blindness in acceptance beyond reason.
It is beyond reason because it is circular logic, a self-proving tautology that refuses external consideration as valid. The comfort found within is contradictory, which isolates people into a peer network of equal absurdity.
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The response to an event is often predetermined. (You will applaud or agree with the leader.)
The content becomes secondary to the context of being seen appropriately collaborating in the spectacle.
When appearance trumps consideration, we live a political/performative existence, not one of truth.
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The unpleasant thing is to be honestly precise rather than passively ambiguous.
Contrary to the stereotype of kindness, politeness can mask avoidance, producing a pain of confusion far more significant than the sting of a momentary correction.
It is ultimately kinder to be clear than to allow the delusion that you are kind.
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Having a purpose in your life provides an orientation point, but people fundamentally want to feel alive. (That is to have your inner sensation and bodily sense engaged and aligned to experience rapture.)
Feeling alive happens when we chase meaning or mystery. Any purpose will do; what we want is pursuit.
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Our universe functions on a super-abundance of energy: the sun freely shares massive amounts of energy, yet we are concerned with scarcity and hoarding.
Our worry is survival. However, we have developed an economy around desire fulfillment, which is never sated and easily converts "want" to "need": amidst excess, we experience lack.
(source: Bataille)
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First: you will never understand. I am either more enlightened, more oppressed, or more sympathetic than you.
Second: if you agree, the drama gets worse. If you disagree, you are a monster.
Third: do nothing. Observe. There will be plenty to do later.
