Our instincts haven’t been working. Maybe they’re still not.

You know why I know that? Because you haven’t been able to feel —you’re numb. You don’t fuck with wild abandon at all. You don’t follow your senses, or even recognize them. You don’t even think your own thoughts—just whatever the latest meme, or commercial or the news tells you to

What are feelings? What do emotions do for us? Are we doomed to just react to them and follow our gut reactions? This is an important article to challenge the dominant cultural impulse to follow our every whim. It lays out emotional models and theory.