As have understood ourselves to be a collection
of individual atoms that has united under the forces of
gravity and evolution. We have both forces bound
within our own evolutionary growth. We are made of
both gravity and evolution. That is part of who we are
and you cannot remove or dissociate oneself from those
forces any more then you can remove your heart, as a physical
entity that moves your blood around your body. If you remove
your heart, you die. It is just that simple. But let us understand
the heart in the symbolic method that the heart is understood,
as an symbol of love and emotion. The creation of love and emotion
and passion comes from the evolution of the biological form we call
human beings. It is as much a part of us as the heart is a physical muscle
that pumps blood for us… To state the obvious, you cannot live without
the heart as a physical function because it is part of us, as the brain and
liver and bones and sinew are also a part of us…… but as we cannot
live without the heart as a physical force that moves blood, we cannot live
without the heart as an symbolic force either. In other words, we are
created by evolution to have emotions, to love, to engage with passion
and we cannot remove those emotions, love, passion inside of us…
They exist just as surely as the heart and brain exists and for the same
reason, they somehow allow us to survive, which as you recall is one
of the patterns evolution has written into our genetic code… All physical
forms created by evolution, has written into it, the will to survive.
It is part of the coding evolution has written into us and
emotion, passion and love is also written into us as genetic coding.
We cannot separate out from us emotions, passions, love any more then
we can separate out our heart or our brain. This is something we need
to learn. Is that we can separate or associate ourselves with ism’s and
ideologies and specific social structures, but we cannot because of our
evolutionary coding escape being part of social structures or escape
being emotional, passionate, loving… This is the failure of
the school of thought that says we must divest ourselves of
emotions, passions, love. We can no more divest ourselves of
that which is coded in us then anymore we can divest ourselves
of our heart or our brain as physical structures that allow us to live.
The 20th century is a lesson in our attempt to follow the
enlightenment of the 18the century and become only rational,
logical. We cannot divest ourselves of our feelings, passions, love,
emotions anymore then we can divest ourselves of our rationality,
logical side of us as that is also written into us as genetic coding.
so our genetic coding, has us being both rational and logical
and passionate and emotional and loving. We must accept
this basic fact and learn to work with both sides of our genetic
heritage, the brain as a symbol and the heart as a symbol.
We cannot deny or negate either side of our genetic heritage
without real problems and those real problems threaten
our very survival. We must learn to work with the rational,
logical side of us and work with the emotional, passionate side
of us… The two sides, because they were created by evolution,
are a fixed and always present part of us and we must exist with both
intact and working. This is part of the challenge of being human,
learning to work with and be part of both the rational and emotional
side of the evolutionary forces that created us. We must work with
our rational side and our emotional side of us just as we must
work with the forces that created the universe, matter in the laws
of gravity and living, biological matter, evolution. We must find
a work to exist and work with gravity and evolution as they are
the forces that are a part of us, exist within us and we cannot escape
the forces of gravity or evolution any more then we can escape the
evolutionary forces of rational thought and emotional feelings.
It is within us, part of us and we must deal with that as best we can.
We have no choice, so we must incorporate both factions of
the evolutionary process that is rationality and emotionality.
so the path to becoming human, fully human lies in learning to
incorporate both sides of the evolutionary coding that exists
within us, emotions and rational thought. so, you want to
become a better human being and a better living being,
the answer lies in incorporating the two sides of our genetic coding,
the emotional and the rational.
Kropotkin