Winston, thanks for your erudition. I was visiting a family back in 2013 here in the UK, a short visit before they departed on holiday and I Iooked after their house and pets. They were a very alternative-minded lot, with talk of spiritual entities and aliens and hidden motherships off-world. The wife was a channel for these alien beings and, well, I needn't go on. Suffice to say, amid all this talk, there was the teenage son. Sitting in the living room on his laptop playing ultra-violent first-person-shooter video games. This was his main occupation and when not involved in simulated cold-blooded murder, was acting out anger and teenage rage. It was such a stark contrast to all the spiritual mumbo-jumbo and ungrounded fantasy, I felt he was a counterbalance to his parents. All in all, it was somewhat shocking to be around.
"As I’ve been surveying the work of Iain McGilchrist and the nature of the left hemisphere of the brain, it becomes clear that a bias toward one side of the brain can change culture and culture can change the bias toward a particular side of the brain."
There is an interesting paper that relates to this: "The Culture Cognition Paradox." If you put it in a seach engine you will also find other related writings.
The parable of The Tower of Babel may be a metaphorical/allegorical way of trying to explain the same concept. Different cultures have different "languages".
I purchased McGilchrist's "The Matter with Things" based on Winston's thoughts about his work. It is a hefty set of books, and I look forward to following Winston's observations.
Without intending to undermine Winston's hypothesis, I want to mention another potential factor regarding violence in western culture. I suspect there is a much higher incidence of "fetal alcohol effect" and "fetal alcohol spectrum disorder" than is commonly understood. I cannot prove the links here, but in terms of salient "active shooter" cases in young males, one can posit that FAS frequently plays a role.
FAS causes permanent structural damage and lack of development. I suspect there are cases of relatively "high functioning" people (i.e. able to minimally interact with others, feed and dress themselves) who nonetheless have permanent brain damage that would earn a sociopathy diagnosis--but as a direct result of FAS. Under this hypothetical, the violence in our culture is not the cause, but perhaps a means to a violent end. Obviously that is only a small subset of people in western culture, and is not an alternative to what Winston posits here.
The HighFunctioning DarkTriad and it’s relationship to the Light’erTriad supermajority goes a long way to explain hostile collectivism and the consolidation of wealth, power, and control in the world today.
Doubling in the last 15 years in the west, hmm, what changed?
Oh yeah way more vaccines. And autism has been climbing too!
So this policy of making a vaccine for every invented virus and medicines for every invented disease is toxifying people. Some cannot detox from it and lose some brain connections and/or functions. Like Phineas Gage, who was a nice guy until a railroad spike damaged his brain, toxicity or a spike to the brain can change a person drastically.
But I guess they'll just make a pill to fix the problem they created with all of this "cool genetic editing"
Winston, thanks for your erudition. I was visiting a family back in 2013 here in the UK, a short visit before they departed on holiday and I Iooked after their house and pets. They were a very alternative-minded lot, with talk of spiritual entities and aliens and hidden motherships off-world. The wife was a channel for these alien beings and, well, I needn't go on. Suffice to say, amid all this talk, there was the teenage son. Sitting in the living room on his laptop playing ultra-violent first-person-shooter video games. This was his main occupation and when not involved in simulated cold-blooded murder, was acting out anger and teenage rage. It was such a stark contrast to all the spiritual mumbo-jumbo and ungrounded fantasy, I felt he was a counterbalance to his parents. All in all, it was somewhat shocking to be around.
"As I’ve been surveying the work of Iain McGilchrist and the nature of the left hemisphere of the brain, it becomes clear that a bias toward one side of the brain can change culture and culture can change the bias toward a particular side of the brain."
There is an interesting paper that relates to this: "The Culture Cognition Paradox." If you put it in a seach engine you will also find other related writings.
The parable of The Tower of Babel may be a metaphorical/allegorical way of trying to explain the same concept. Different cultures have different "languages".
I purchased McGilchrist's "The Matter with Things" based on Winston's thoughts about his work. It is a hefty set of books, and I look forward to following Winston's observations.
Without intending to undermine Winston's hypothesis, I want to mention another potential factor regarding violence in western culture. I suspect there is a much higher incidence of "fetal alcohol effect" and "fetal alcohol spectrum disorder" than is commonly understood. I cannot prove the links here, but in terms of salient "active shooter" cases in young males, one can posit that FAS frequently plays a role.
FAS causes permanent structural damage and lack of development. I suspect there are cases of relatively "high functioning" people (i.e. able to minimally interact with others, feed and dress themselves) who nonetheless have permanent brain damage that would earn a sociopathy diagnosis--but as a direct result of FAS. Under this hypothetical, the violence in our culture is not the cause, but perhaps a means to a violent end. Obviously that is only a small subset of people in western culture, and is not an alternative to what Winston posits here.
The HighFunctioning DarkTriad and it’s relationship to the Light’erTriad supermajority goes a long way to explain hostile collectivism and the consolidation of wealth, power, and control in the world today.
Doubling in the last 15 years in the west, hmm, what changed?
Oh yeah way more vaccines. And autism has been climbing too!
So this policy of making a vaccine for every invented virus and medicines for every invented disease is toxifying people. Some cannot detox from it and lose some brain connections and/or functions. Like Phineas Gage, who was a nice guy until a railroad spike damaged his brain, toxicity or a spike to the brain can change a person drastically.
But I guess they'll just make a pill to fix the problem they created with all of this "cool genetic editing"