People, especially those who proclaim themselves highly intelligent, often praise logic as if it sits above all other human qualities. We’ve told stories about it for so long that some have even turned it into an identity: men are logical, women are emotional. Whether true or not is beside the point. The story itself impacts how people think, and those thoughts have a way of traveling through generations.
But praising anything too highly turns it into a god, and all gods eventually die.
The trouble with worshipping logic or a person’s intelligence is that it creates division where there may be none. Logic is not wisdom. Logic is not truth. Logic is simply a system.
Even criminals are logical. They make plans. They think step by step. They persuade with charm, presentation, and intent. Logic can build a hospital or orchestrate a robbery. The system itself is neutral.
Life, however, does not always move in systems.
Intelligence does not always flow in straight lines. It can appear disorganized. It can erupt unexpectedly. It can look like a mistake when viewed from a limited perspective. Yet there are no mistakes in pure intelligence. There is only movement, change, creation, and destruction occurring together.
When we stop separating everything into opposing camps—logical and emotional, right and wrong, order and chaos—we begin to see things as they are.
No need to make intelligence different.
No need to convince yourself that what is happening isn’t happening.
Just this.
Just life, exactly as it is.
Vachon Imagined 
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