The following explores a peculiar feature of our our COVID 19 experience which urges us to desert our loved ones in their time of greatest emotional-experiential need in order to avoid some analytically calculated probability of putting ourselves and others through a risky experience (‘through ‘community spread’ of ‘what we may have’ ‘if we happen to have it’).

We could never train natural-born-and-raised animals to do this since it entails putting ‘analytical reason’ into an unnatural precedence over natural emotions arising from our relational sensory-experience grounded intuition.

The COVID 19 dilemma with its promoting of LOGIC over sensory experience-based INTUITIVE (spontaneous) emotions is truly a landmark development for homo sapiens, at least for those homo sapiens of the WESTERN CULTURE.  The tendency to invert our natural precedence of intuitive intellection over rational intellection (as Kepler put it in ‘Harmonies of the World’) is stronger for adults than for children (i.e. the child’s logic-driven behavioural drive has not yet matured to the point of clearly overpowering their natural intuition induced emotional behavioural responses).  But for those WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT youths who are entering into adulthood who have, a decade or two of cultural conditioning behind them, that gives them the self-discipline to self-distance from and/or kill those that the CULTURE defines as PATHOGENS by intellectual reasoning and NAME labelling, intuition is demoted and falls into the darkness beneath the rational (logical) thinking plane, so that rational (logical) thinking is given first dibs in the designing and executing of behavioural dynamics.

For the proponents of developing a culture wherein language and grammar supported LOGICAL REASONING based societal behaviour prevails over relational-intuitive SENSORY-EXPERIENCE EMOTIONAL RESPONSES, the social dynamic associated with the COVID 19 Pandemic ‘makes sense’; i.e. it signals the establishing of primacy of intellectual calculation over sensory-experience grounded intuitive insight (e.g. “let’s let granny and/or gramps die alone in the lockup to be ‘on the safe side'”).

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