Rational Emotions

We would give into the fight or flight response every time had we no control over our emotions. Worse, we would be jumping every guy or girl that we found attractive, but even animals have a sort of rationale of a mating period for when they do that. So, I suppose this means that rationality ought to control the emotions. However, I almost want to go the Rochester route and claim that there is such a thing as 'right reason', the one that appeals to the senses. In moderation. He did die of syphilis, I am quite aware of that fact, and was known to be an outright womanizer, but that doesn't mean that what he claimed had any less credibility. He just didn't practice what he preached... let's call ourselves ALL guilty for doing that. But, the essence of this rant is to aim at the impossibility of controlling your emotions even though you have self-control.
There is a distinction between societal and outward self-control as opposed to the complete obliteration of thoughts and emotions. It seems as though we can not pursue the latter without either being ignorant of our true intentions, motives and desires and hence simply lying to ourselves. The idea of self-control because society claims it right or appropriate given a particular circumstance, seems to me to be hypocritical. Of course we don't want to act on all our emotions, but it is absurd to believe that we don't have them and that they will and must control us from time to time. We only find the absurd beautiful or grotesque because it amplifies or reduces to it's meager form what our incessant desires, vices and virtues are in exaggeration...
For "man differs from man, more than man differs from beast" -- Rochester's Satyr Against Reason and Mankind.
That's all for now...
XOX