there are some corners of the scientific world that have been invaded by emotionally unbalanced people. who are they? they are the people who cannot function in society or in a system because their emotions are either too expressive or not expressive enough. This imbalance interferes with their own pursuits (if they have any) and the goals of family, society, civilization and the larger domains.
pursuing emotional expressions above all others is like dropping too many eggs into one basket. if there were 12 baskets and 144 eggs, putting all 144 eggs into basket #1 would be fanciful but also folly. [zeugma, syllepsis]
the problem is that it takes a massive amount of resources (including time and energy) to build up skills. emotionality is not a skill. emotionality is no more a skill than breathing, urinating, sleeping, pooping and eating. these are almost entirely involuntary behaviors. sure, sometimes such involuntary behaviors can be enhanced. for instance, cultish yoga folk will tell you that you can control your breathing to do magical things, which is an exaggeration of the greatest form. regardless, it could be considered a form of creativity, which is indeed a skill. don’t confuse unregulated emotionality with creativity. the only part of emotionality that is a skill is the regulation, which is quite literally lacking when it is unregulated.
if humans were immortals, this would not be an issue. each of us could pursue regulated emotionality with the force that some of us pursue bricklaying, nation-building or biology. it could become a creative skill. but we are immortal, and so we must pick and choose. some of us choose wisely, others poorly. sometimes our choices are limited, but often our personal choices dominate among bad choices.
many people — not picking on the culty yogis this time but rather the nihilists and supremacists and other variants of the entropic *ists — would like you to believe that letting things fall apart is the end-all, be-all — the alpha and the omega — the purpose and the goal. no. incorrect. blatantly false. the universe is entropic by nature. entropy must be controlled as a part of the rest and recovery cycle. it’s certainly not a pursuit except as a pursuit of nothingness. the pursuit of nothingness is a clear paradox if ever there was one.
unfortunately these kinds of people and people who have bought into their false arguments are trying to invade scientific realms. get out — i say — get out!
science is the opposite of nothingness, don’t ya know? i mean that quite literally. the word “science” is cognate with an ancient class of words in latin (i.e., the verb scio, “i know”) and indo-european languages that quite literally mean knowledge. science is the pursuit of knowledge.
expressing emotions can be a healthy part of the rest and recovery process. but rest and recovery is apart and separate from the methodologies of science. you are a human, not a machine. you have a biological, evolutionary need to express your emotions. but expressing emotions at the wrong time and in the wrong place are supremely detrimental to the frankly delicate, difficult and complex processes of science. so keep it in your pants, buddy!
on the other hand, if you are a nihilist and your goal is to help entropy along, then by all means, express your emotions in the wrong place at the wrong time. in the meantime, the rest of the world will ostracize you and expel you as a natural defense against your brand of disruption. just don’t complain when you find yourself on the wrong side of the train tracks — you would have, after all, make a (bad) choice.