Therapeutic discourse between emotions and rationality

I think therefore iam.

A lot of us would recognise and even (try to) identify with these platinum(golden is too common)words of Descartes(pardon me if i've spelt it wrong).

Some just try to project ourselves as great thinkers - they are not necessarily pseudos but are liars atleast .Man is a social animal and therein lies the entire problem. Maslow put forth the five needs of man and specially it is the social and esteem needs that drive men to become dandies or pseudo intellectuals.It is ironic that they use the platinum words like those of Descartes' while defying them completely

To analyse it at a different level , one might say maybe Descartes was trying to do the same when he coined this phrase/line.It seems to be an assertion to define man as a rational being rather than an emotional one.Maybe it is here that you can trace the origin of the liberal theory of man being an autonomous individual (it was just a platitude to justify capitalism).Well i beleive man has never been nor was it ever a rational being completely.As todays consumer behavioralists say that man is all emotions- i do not buy that either.

Man is rational in thinking but the final stamp of approval is of the emotions.So man is a rational emotional creature.He tries to cover up his vulnerability by a false show of intellectualism.This is also the reason that the most sensitive people either do not speak at all or just keep chattering.OR taking the other perspective that man thinks too much -then it is the reason why people immerse themselves in work when in pain or heartbroken so that they have no time to think and relive the pain.

Pseudo or for real ,man thinks.-be it big or small, he does.

Reaching this inference is not difficult but the fact that "i think, therefore iam " is difficult to digest in whole.For me i feel therefore iam and if i think i shall do nothing holds true.So am i not a human being?? Ah ! then i must be an angel(Devils have inverted feet, i do not).Well this premise is not displeasing ,though it is not digestable either.

This exercise might seem like a pseudo intellectual one to you but trust me it is not.It is just a meandering way to comment on artificiality in the world and the inability to be non emotional all the time!!