Our society is increasingly being driven to favour ideas that are rationally sustained; ideas which are corroborated by reasoning, and which entice the approval of our practical notions. This is largely the result of industrialisation and capitalist enterprise; we're so immensely concerned for our worldly successes, that we seldom indulge ourselves with the opportunity to transcend it all, and to step into the realm of imagination. What will it take for us to dream again? I think the same question can be associated with other questions of a similar nature. What will it take for us to entertain unreasonable beliefs? What will it take for us to nourish faith and superstition as fervently as we used to? We are so firmly entrenched in our devotion to practical reasoning and utility, that we are divesting ourselves of our spiritual notions, and becoming, as it were, dreamless sleepers. Perhaps irrationality can't be justified or supported. I don't think it'd be a good idea if we impetuously embraced all the conspiracy theories and religions that we encountered, and lifted ourselves to a world filled with illusions, entirely for the sake of maintaining the impulse to dream. I don't agree with pursuing crusades and hallucinations. But humans are irrational creatures by nature, and when we wrench ourselves away from that, and begin to focus instead on objective argument and frigid reasoning - that's when our dreams begin to fade and wither.
But humans are irrational creatures by nature, and when we wrench ourselves away from that, and begin to focus instead on objective argument and frigid reasoning - that's when our dreams begin to fade and wither.
I agree this statement. I seems that we have lost track of the balance between rational and irrational pursuits. It's as if we've forgotten that for there to be rational ones to , there must be irrational ones. And over time, these irrational ones can be shown to be more rational than the originally thought rational pursuits.