Why do we need mind, intellect over our desires?

Question from the Internet:

“Why is it important to use reason to examine our notions of the world?”

We are primarily emotional beings, our impressions, perception of the world is based on sensory input that activates all kinds of emotions in us. We are animated, enlivened by instinctive desires part of which we are aware of and a larger part of which desires move us, drive us unconsciously.

Without an auxiliary intellect, mind, reason we would be completely animalistic, mindlessly consuming each other and everything, destroying the world much faster than we are destroying it now.

The problem is, that by default even our mind, reason, intellect is 100% self-serving, self-justifying, making calculations, controlling our desires, emotions for our own sake at the expense of others.

Thus while externally we seem more sophisticated than animals, and we seem to have some intellectual control over our instinctive desires, emotions, the intention behind our intellect, reason still literally kills us, as by default we have the “intellect of a cancer cell”, capable of seeing, promoting only itself while gradually killing, destroying everything in its path.

Thus in order to survive, in order to merit being called “truly Human beings”, we need to acquire, develop a different, “higher intellect, reason”

Based on the multitude of examples from Nature’s finely balanced, integral system, we have to overcome our inherently egocentric, subjective, individualistic intellect and we have to build a unique, selfless, mutually responsible and mutually complementing collective consciousness, intellect.

With this new, Nature-like “collective intellect” we will be able to fully control, channel, harness our extremely strong, insatiable and irrepressible desires, catapulting ourselves to a qualitatively much higher, collective Human existence, becoming Nature’s only conscious, independent “collective mind”.