people often ask why cognition doesn’t follow a linear path from non-feeling transactions to feeling/social transactions. My answer is feelings/inaccurate internal belief system short circuits reasonable thinking and “trying to get the next donut or going along to get along puts many people in a state of perpetual “sleep”. Introspection in this country is not promoted anywhere, not on TV, schools, barbershops, work etc., so how is a person supposed to “wake up” “the unexamined life is not worth living” needs to surpass the “the more I feel happy the better my life is” mantra.