Beyond Reason

The Blog | Susan Smalley: What's Beyond Reason? Intuition and Well-Being | The Huffington Post

I believe that we have entered an era where reason has become obsolete, no longer beyond the strangling grasp of politics. New media have enabled those with access to these tools to obfuscate and manipulate ideas so that reasoned debate is no longer possible. The public, having to deal with massive amounts of information can no longer sift through the messages. We would use our intuition, but the cognitive dissonance caused by so much conflicting information just makes us give up. Our intuition tells us, "don't believe anything."