A fundamental problem for our culture and times...

It seems to me that our fundamental problem is this: Living according to reason, that is rightly attached to reality/truth, has given way to living according to one’s emotions, passions, preferences and not-well-attached-to-reality musings that masquerade as ‘thinking’. (And it's happening personally, culturally and politically.) The great problem with this approach?: reality is a very stubborn thing.