Standing up to the Age of Emotions
- - on 11/16/2015
Featured image of Paris attack memorial courtesy Washington Post
We have left the Age of Reason behind. This is the Age of Emotions. Precisely at what point we made the crossover can be left to historians. Yet the moment the Al Qaeda manned jets crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York and drew the First World irrevocably into a protracted state of global warfare is as good as any. Daniel Goleman’s groundbreaking work –Emotional Intelligence had only been published 6 years before 9/11 in 1995. Having celebrated the heights and achievements of human reason we are now revisiting our own emotions – and we don’t seem to like what we see.
