#Rationalism

Positivism is the dogma that worships observation as the sole oracle, consigning the unseen to oblivion. It sacrifices everything on the altar of data and numbers, branding intangible concepts as heresy. Yet, human values and affections that resist measurement are abandoned outside its confines. Celebrating the pursuit of truth, it paradoxically decays into idolatry of science itself. A sorrowful creed that deems only the visible worthy of existence.

A noble endeavor to shove aside pesky emotions and cage the world in narrow cells of formula and logic. A school of thought that discards the shadows of truth and piles up mountains of evidence, yet trembles at uncertainty. Cold as it excludes emotion and paradoxical as it demands coherence, it serves as the ruthless judge of the realm of ideas. It seeks to solidify shifting values on the bedrock of logic, only to find that the bedrock itself is ever in flux.