"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
Sorry to hear about your early experience under communism. I've listened to a few first hand accounts of oppression under communism but the most profound learning has come from both Aleksandr Slozhenitsyn and Igor Shafarevich. I'm sure we in the West have no experiential idea of what the Marxist ideology can do to a people.
Thank you sir, but you don't have to, for it isn't your fault.
I just have a bad back and I cannot bend over, and I knew the dire consequences of my actions.
I do feel a bit frustrated for I thought it is all "done and dusted", and now I have to start all over again, I am not at a young age anymore, and this time there's nowhere to escape their mad rage, violence and hatred. It's everywhere.
And - most important to me - my child has to know that at least I tried...
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.
What you are touching on will require another post, which I will do, on the primacy of affect, the deeper subcortical and whole body emotion/affect pre-cognition assessment of the world, which the propagandist knows about and uses to his advantage. The use of fear is not to target a people who are too right brained to think logically, but to target a people who have been corralled into a myopic (and I'd argue left hemispheric) perception of reality - using a 'logic' that misses the bigger picture, misses the larger context. Easy targets to ignite a fear response (again, not right hemisphere specific) and channel them into a place of easy control.
The idea that the right hemisphere is emotional and the left logical is a misnomer and what you might suppose is an emotional decision (I just "feel" like this is the right way) actually has nothing to do with affect but a kind of faulty logic produced by the left hemisphere and which is totally convincing to the left hemisphere. Toby Rogers was making a point just the other day when listening to the FDA decision makers who ignore evidence and go with their 'feelings' that the kids need the jab - well it's not an emotional feeling, as we'd normally think, it's a faulty logic, ignoring what the right brain would consider actual logic (because it's taking in the whole picture, all the data, the whole context - which the FDA is obviously not doing).
There's lots to say on this point and I will get to it as it can be an understandable confusion (not helped by the pop psychology notion of right-emotional, left-logical).
Aristotle was right, logical analysis is a good thing and requires both hemispheres of the brain. Consider examples that I've spoken of in other posts about schizophrenia - if you want a picture of the left hemisphere acting alone, think of a schizophrenic at the height of a psychotic episode - that is not the rationality and logic Aristotle was making reference to and it's certainly not the bias we want to be leaning into so we can be 'logical'.
Anyway, thanks for bringing it up - I'll have to write more on this.
Fair enough. I’m certainly not trying to make claims about neuroscience. I just don’t think mechanisticity, measurability, and componentiality are evil. Quite the contrary — our ability to create systems with these properties is an expression of our humanity.
I get much more nervous when people talk about “intangible human qualities” and our unique “irreducibility”. These terms sound nice, but they can mean anything and can be used to further any agenda.
Yes I get what you mean. Certainly mechanisticity/measurability/componentiality are not evil but has a particular place - and I guess that's the main point. For the left hemisphere it's the entire world, but that's not the true nature of the world. I want a mechanical perspective for my car, my computer, the aircraft I'm about to entrust my life to, and mechanisticity to produce the widgets I want, but not for relationships, government, biology, and lots of other non-mechanistic things (like spirituality) there are in our lives.
It's about balance, things in their right context, both hemispheres working together to ensure some things serve other things in the right order, that the Emissary doesn't usurp the Master.
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.
John it's very true that there are multiple escape hatches and even this aspect of collective left-hemispheric bias is but only a part of the picture (albeit a major part, and damn interesting).
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.
I was following Eisenstein on Substack a while back before I did a purge simply because I was following way too many people. Maybe I should re-connect then given what you've just said. I must say I don't remember getting into much of his work, again probably because I had this self-imposed tsunami of essays coming at me each day. And The Ascent of Humanity - I'll seek it out. Thanks for the heads up.
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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...
Sorry to hear about your early experience under communism. I've listened to a few first hand accounts of oppression under communism but the most profound learning has come from both Aleksandr Slozhenitsyn and Igor Shafarevich. I'm sure we in the West have no experiential idea of what the Marxist ideology can do to a people.
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Thank you sir, but you don't have to, for it isn't your fault.
I just have a bad back and I cannot bend over, and I knew the dire consequences of my actions.
I do feel a bit frustrated for I thought it is all "done and dusted", and now I have to start all over again, I am not at a young age anymore, and this time there's nowhere to escape their mad rage, violence and hatred. It's everywhere.
And - most important to me - my child has to know that at least I tried...
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.
What you are touching on will require another post, which I will do, on the primacy of affect, the deeper subcortical and whole body emotion/affect pre-cognition assessment of the world, which the propagandist knows about and uses to his advantage. The use of fear is not to target a people who are too right brained to think logically, but to target a people who have been corralled into a myopic (and I'd argue left hemispheric) perception of reality - using a 'logic' that misses the bigger picture, misses the larger context. Easy targets to ignite a fear response (again, not right hemisphere specific) and channel them into a place of easy control.
The idea that the right hemisphere is emotional and the left logical is a misnomer and what you might suppose is an emotional decision (I just "feel" like this is the right way) actually has nothing to do with affect but a kind of faulty logic produced by the left hemisphere and which is totally convincing to the left hemisphere. Toby Rogers was making a point just the other day when listening to the FDA decision makers who ignore evidence and go with their 'feelings' that the kids need the jab - well it's not an emotional feeling, as we'd normally think, it's a faulty logic, ignoring what the right brain would consider actual logic (because it's taking in the whole picture, all the data, the whole context - which the FDA is obviously not doing).
There's lots to say on this point and I will get to it as it can be an understandable confusion (not helped by the pop psychology notion of right-emotional, left-logical).
Aristotle was right, logical analysis is a good thing and requires both hemispheres of the brain. Consider examples that I've spoken of in other posts about schizophrenia - if you want a picture of the left hemisphere acting alone, think of a schizophrenic at the height of a psychotic episode - that is not the rationality and logic Aristotle was making reference to and it's certainly not the bias we want to be leaning into so we can be 'logical'.
Anyway, thanks for bringing it up - I'll have to write more on this.
Fair enough. I’m certainly not trying to make claims about neuroscience. I just don’t think mechanisticity, measurability, and componentiality are evil. Quite the contrary — our ability to create systems with these properties is an expression of our humanity.
I get much more nervous when people talk about “intangible human qualities” and our unique “irreducibility”. These terms sound nice, but they can mean anything and can be used to further any agenda.
Yes I get what you mean. Certainly mechanisticity/measurability/componentiality are not evil but has a particular place - and I guess that's the main point. For the left hemisphere it's the entire world, but that's not the true nature of the world. I want a mechanical perspective for my car, my computer, the aircraft I'm about to entrust my life to, and mechanisticity to produce the widgets I want, but not for relationships, government, biology, and lots of other non-mechanistic things (like spirituality) there are in our lives.
It's about balance, things in their right context, both hemispheres working together to ensure some things serve other things in the right order, that the Emissary doesn't usurp the Master.
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.
John it's very true that there are multiple escape hatches and even this aspect of collective left-hemispheric bias is but only a part of the picture (albeit a major part, and damn interesting).
I like your expanding gas analogy!
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.
I was following Eisenstein on Substack a while back before I did a purge simply because I was following way too many people. Maybe I should re-connect then given what you've just said. I must say I don't remember getting into much of his work, again probably because I had this self-imposed tsunami of essays coming at me each day. And The Ascent of Humanity - I'll seek it out. Thanks for the heads up.
His substack is good, but I'd definitely recommend starting with the book.
OK - I got it on audible - will have a listen.