We aren't rational animals though.
Emotion rules intellect - but instinct is even faster than emotion; intellect is the slowest 'brain'. Thus we 'rationalize' our precipitate actions - after the fact of.. acts even a fraction of a second before. All the time.
Isn't that why we ascribe wisdom to those few who - do not give into the anger of a moment, who deliberate, only give answers after thorough contemplation: usually seek non-violent solutions VS the easy, quick, instinctive no-brainer [Literally] ?
Whatever might be said about 'religion' - I believe that we rarely see that in this culture. We see overt religiosity for public consumption and via second-hand Authority. And.. conformity. Above all - comformity to the popular homogenized take du jour.
I think you are describing mob-religion, then. It's the best most can manage. It isn't good enough, but - the species is still in adolescence. Sometimes it's hard to cut That much slack - like nowadays. The mob is ever the Beast. But there still are the Exceptional around, or we'd have killed-off each other even sooner.
Ashton
