Patrick Ponticel

“Reason is the slave of passion.” Is any insight into the human mind more profound than that one by Russian novelist Fyodr Dostoyevsky? Consider this lesser known pearl of wisdom by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: “People don’t have ideas; ideas have people.” Both insights by these sages for the ages speak to how hard it is for people to think straight. For something whose main job ought to be providing an accurate picture of the world, the brain is a shockingly unreliable program.