Heads in a Jar - Futurama

Rationalism, that abstract pinnacle from which the utopian progressive dreams of socialism, liberalism and Marxism are conceived, forgets that it only came to consciousness in a biological body, a human family and a human society all of which pre-existed it. These things all mean that it emerges already subject to constraints or obligations. These “constraints” can be seen as chains or, alternatively, as those things which should most be celebrated and enjoyed in the human condition. Rationalism thinks there is nothing which has to be “accepted” as a given before it begins to operate. It simply exists, summoned spontaneously and mysteriously in the snap of two fingers, into that existence, in an abstract space and operating as an utterly free agent. It is a disembodied and, thus, "free" mind that then insists on spurious freedoms.