Instinct and Logic

It seems that instinct often precedes logic. People justify their actions with reason and evidence only after their inclination has told them what to choose. In many instances, this inclination is set up by avarice. For example, in Heart of Darkness, the colonizers first followed their greed, then justified it by claiming superiority and the White Man's Burden. Similarly today, in politics, in ideals, and in religion, people follow their hearts and direct their minds to follow suit. This oftentimes allows for self-serving and inherently selfish actions, which one develops logical reasons to explain it only after the decision has been made. The greatest, most ingenious gear in the clockwork of this procedure, however, is that many don't realize the existence of this. This hand, nudging us along, telling us what to do, is invisible to the naked eye. One must look through a microscope and examine what it may be that really drives these decisions. Is it really always logic, or is it more often human nature?

Control and understanding of oneself comes when one at least toys with the possibility that his logic is only trailing in the wake of an invisible hand.