Mythos vs. Logos

How is there a conflict between emotions and logic in humans? Men have striven to be more logical for so long, to look at everything more rationally. It seems he is trying to banish mythos from his persona. While at face value this might seem to be a good idea. But without human emotion the world would be a dreary place indeed. Without love and compassion people would march over one another like robot striving for success. It's this mythos that makes the world and exciting place, a place worth living in. Mythos is chaos, and out of the chaos of emotion comes change. Someone falls in love, loses the target of his affection, and goes on a shooting rampage. Lawmakers then pass laws to control guns. Mythos enacts logos in many cases. So the conflict of mythos vs. logos is a necessary one. Purely emotional beings are dangerous to society, madmen that follow no logical rules and destroy rational order. At the same time, beings that are completely logic try to quell the human spirit and are prone to being cold, calculating, and evil in the sense that cruel despots are generally considered evil.

But at the same time there is a need for people with an imbalance in the mythos-logos scales. Artists need to have stronger emotion to create beauty from it. Scientists need to have more logic and less emotion to allow them to do some of the things they do.

There is a conflict between mythos and logos on both the individual and societal levels, and it is a necessary conflict.