Why Emotions Matter More Than Ever

We’ve always been taught that Homo sapiens is set apart from other species by its ability to override so-called “animalistic” inner cues stemming from hormones and instincts.  But is that really an advantage?  Hormones and instincts are vital, visceral responses to the real world which serve as important alerts and warnings.  They are the source of much of what we call “emotional intelligence” and the spiritual compass, our “heart” so to speak.  Boycotting them is the reason behind much of the ongoing civilisational decay staring us in the face.

The necrosystem has become an efficient machine of emotional suppression.  There is a heavy cost for a society that has censored and invalidated emotion: it has stopped looking in the mirror, self-assessing, processing its traumas and channelling its anger in healthy ways.  There is an ultimate economic and political motive behind this civilisation’s emotional gagging order: it allows conspiracy theories and extreme views to thrive, as emotionally stunted humans look to authority to tell them what is true, what is fake, and how to feel about it.  Disabling people’s ability to know what they are feeling and why they are feeling it, is an incredible weapon of manipulation.  Those deprived of their inner compass become the perfect human cattle: they will never find their way out of the farm, but can easily be led towards the cliff.

Power is always terrified of an electorate who discovers their inner truth, owns their thoughts and their emotional world, because these voters are much less likely to fall for manipulation and fearmongering.  Unprocessed emotions are explosive weapons in the hands of charismatic demagogues who learn to harness and weaponize them.  Voters’ unprocessed discontent is the perfect weapon: it sits in the back of their heads like a forgotten radioactive dump site, waiting for the right “leader” to offer it a toxic outlet.  It is eventually unleashed as a weapon, directed to whoever and wherever the mind controller has targeted.

The reason why society long ago classified much of our emotional world as “taboo” was precisely so that emotions are never properly processed and resolved without outside “help”:  politicians, religions and opportunistic movements became our psychologists, weaponizing our anger at the voting booth rather than genuinely helping societies heal.  We are never allowed to own, process and interpret our own emotions, exactly so that our leaders can do it on our behalf to serve their agendas.  Religions and centres of power have long ago assumed the role of family psychologist: telling us how to interpret, process and act on our raw emotions and fears, how to live our lives, who to have sex with, what is acceptable and what isn’t.  The ultimate purpose?  Social control and the maintenance of prevailing power and economic structures.

We have been prohibited from conversing with our emotions exactly because they bring us closer to truth.  Our emotional system has all but been decommissioned: we are seldomly allowed to get angry, to love, or to disagree on our own terms.  Unable to own ourselves we unavoidably become inactive citizens, just what this system wants.  Emotion has been banned from science, education, and the corporate world, effectively censoring the search for truth and the tackling of inequality, ecocide and the climate crisis.  Without its emotions this civilisation is robbed of its ethical compass.

Despite the benefits of living within a society, it is important to recognise that society itself is a system of emotional suffocation.  A disadvantage of large, organized societies is that group dynamics foster herd behaviours that extinguish self-discovery and convert individuals to inanimate objects.  Even within countercultures, marginalised groups, and even anarchy movements who claim to resist social organisation, oppressive codes of conduct can form.  The tendency within any group is for rules, regulations, and leaders to spontaneously emerge.  Power is like a multi-headed beast: you can try and “eat the rich”, or “send the elites to prison”, but more of them will emerge out of nowhere, literally overnight. 

The fictional Cyborg race in Star Trek may be a prophetic vision of what is happening to humanity at the macro level.  Despite being more “connected” than ever, sometimes we literally cannot see in front of us.  Manual controls are disabled as we live our lives on apps in one, shared brain that makes decisions for us by narrowing our options down to a rudimentary list.  Just like the Cyborgs, our vision has atrophied because we simply do not need it anymore: content is readily served to us by the dystopian media machine of the Unhappiness Machine.  As long as the necrosystem takes the daily initiative of telling us exactly who we are, where we are, what we are seeing and how we should feel about it, we will never have the consciousness to wake up from the Civilisational Lie.  

George is an author, researcher, molecular biologist and food scientist.

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