The emotions have their own playingfield. They work, as it were, underneath us, undermining our good reasons. To be lonely -- what is this but the emotions, blind as they are, reaching out for something they swear is there but isn't? To miss someone -- isn't this loneliness too?
That's the danger of passivity; that's the danger ninety-nine percent of America is in. Consummating the right thing -- the reasonable thing -- involves effort, and to live passively is to be governed by one's thoughts or moods and the emotions that hold them up. We're consumers; that is, we're hedonists; that is, we're in bondage.
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