"Walking the middle path" makes a lot of sense nowadays, huh ?
" The left hemisphere is a wonderful servant but a terrible master" - so true.
We can not allow the suppression of any of them. At this point in time, our physical bodies are too dependant on technology. We need shoes, clothing, washing machines (perhaps the greatest thing ever invented), proper sewage and garbage disposal, ways to feed ourselves and stay away from other animals that may develop a sweet tooth for us, clean water, keep vermin at bay, we cannot be thrown back in the stone age without 90% of us being wiped out of existence.
So yes, technology helps a lot, but only for as long as it is kept on a leash.
The right hemisphere is our link to the whole Universe. If we allow it to be silenced, we will become machines, even without any implants. This is the main goal of any power obsessed communist regime, to kill differences, personalities, to lock everyone's spirit in tiny boxes and throw them in their dark vaults to have fun with, when boredom creeps in. I survived somehow in a communist latrine for the first 25 years of my life, and I know first hand how it works.
Those born and raised in western countries are heavily indoctrinated and won't understand the true Hell this communist Cabal has in store for them. The answer that scratches my ears most often is "They didn't do it properly in your country. It can be done better", and they use this as a reason for why they wouldn't go live in a communist shithole, while doing everything to change their country into one. Perhaps it is the time for them to experience it first hand, and for long enough for the pain to become embedded in their genes and transmitted to the next generations, as an eternal warning.
What is happening now is just the starters, and they are complaining already ツ
The digital ID, the social credit system, the mass vaccinations, mass lockdowns, hyper-surveillance, all the mechanisms of control over an individual’s ideals, ideas and freedoms, all stem from “a world geared to technological production” and the perspective of the left hemisphere.
I would argue that *right brain thinking* is actually responsible for most of the covid authoritarianism. Reason has been crushed and replaced by feelings. The fascist left has no place for facts because they know that their positions cannot be objectively defended. This is why they use fear to manipulate people. We are entering a new dark ages in which individual reason is once again subservient to centralized authority.
Aristotle says that humans are rational animals. Logical analysis is the source of everything that is beautiful, everything that is truly human.
To date you have done a superb job illustrating the mass psychosis we are living in. I look forward to your future writings which illuminate the escape path from this mass psychosis. I doubt there is one single escape hatch, as much as I doubt there will be billions of individual pathways to freedom. I just hope we don't flow downhill with gravitational pull on the path of least resistance. Maybe our self rescue will be akin to the fluid dynamics of gases, and we expand outward in all directions.
Well written Winston. I guess it's like the majority are off balance or out of tune. If a tune up is needed that starts with individuals. And collectively those individuals form an alternative consensus.
Winston, are you familiar with the writings of Charles Eisenstein? To the best of my knowledge he hasn't referenced McGilchrist directly, but he's been writing extensively on the subject of separation, the machine metaphor, etc., for years (The Ascent of Humanity is his premier work on the subject). The general thrust of his thought is that there's a sort of universal exhaustion with separation and control, that this is producing a spiritual malaise, and that much of what afflicts us is due not so much to a large scale conspiracy as to the widespread adoption of the machine metaphor at all levels of society. There's a lot of overlap with McGilchrist's perspective, and indeed I'd argue that Eisenstein's intellectual methodology - which is to adopt as many perspectives as possible in order to obtain a holistic view of the situation, without ever insisting on certainty - is very similar to McGilchrist's, and exactly the sort of RH modality that is so desperately needed.
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"Walking the middle path" makes a lot of sense nowadays, huh ?
" The left hemisphere is a wonderful servant but a terrible master" - so true.
We can not allow the suppression of any of them. At this point in time, our physical bodies are too dependant on technology. We need shoes, clothing, washing machines (perhaps the greatest thing ever invented), proper sewage and garbage disposal, ways to feed ourselves and stay away from other animals that may develop a sweet tooth for us, clean water, keep vermin at bay, we cannot be thrown back in the stone age without 90% of us being wiped out of existence.
So yes, technology helps a lot, but only for as long as it is kept on a leash.
The right hemisphere is our link to the whole Universe. If we allow it to be silenced, we will become machines, even without any implants. This is the main goal of any power obsessed communist regime, to kill differences, personalities, to lock everyone's spirit in tiny boxes and throw them in their dark vaults to have fun with, when boredom creeps in. I survived somehow in a communist latrine for the first 25 years of my life, and I know first hand how it works.
Those born and raised in western countries are heavily indoctrinated and won't understand the true Hell this communist Cabal has in store for them. The answer that scratches my ears most often is "They didn't do it properly in your country. It can be done better", and they use this as a reason for why they wouldn't go live in a communist shithole, while doing everything to change their country into one. Perhaps it is the time for them to experience it first hand, and for long enough for the pain to become embedded in their genes and transmitted to the next generations, as an eternal warning.
What is happening now is just the starters, and they are complaining already ツ
Little do they know...
The digital ID, the social credit system, the mass vaccinations, mass lockdowns, hyper-surveillance, all the mechanisms of control over an individual’s ideals, ideas and freedoms, all stem from “a world geared to technological production” and the perspective of the left hemisphere.
I would argue that *right brain thinking* is actually responsible for most of the covid authoritarianism. Reason has been crushed and replaced by feelings. The fascist left has no place for facts because they know that their positions cannot be objectively defended. This is why they use fear to manipulate people. We are entering a new dark ages in which individual reason is once again subservient to centralized authority.
Aristotle says that humans are rational animals. Logical analysis is the source of everything that is beautiful, everything that is truly human.
To date you have done a superb job illustrating the mass psychosis we are living in. I look forward to your future writings which illuminate the escape path from this mass psychosis. I doubt there is one single escape hatch, as much as I doubt there will be billions of individual pathways to freedom. I just hope we don't flow downhill with gravitational pull on the path of least resistance. Maybe our self rescue will be akin to the fluid dynamics of gases, and we expand outward in all directions.
Well written Winston. I guess it's like the majority are off balance or out of tune. If a tune up is needed that starts with individuals. And collectively those individuals form an alternative consensus.
Winston, are you familiar with the writings of Charles Eisenstein? To the best of my knowledge he hasn't referenced McGilchrist directly, but he's been writing extensively on the subject of separation, the machine metaphor, etc., for years (The Ascent of Humanity is his premier work on the subject). The general thrust of his thought is that there's a sort of universal exhaustion with separation and control, that this is producing a spiritual malaise, and that much of what afflicts us is due not so much to a large scale conspiracy as to the widespread adoption of the machine metaphor at all levels of society. There's a lot of overlap with McGilchrist's perspective, and indeed I'd argue that Eisenstein's intellectual methodology - which is to adopt as many perspectives as possible in order to obtain a holistic view of the situation, without ever insisting on certainty - is very similar to McGilchrist's, and exactly the sort of RH modality that is so desperately needed.