Mr O'Brien - always a pleasure to hear from you, and as coherent as ever. I do believe what you are getting at in regards to the bias toward empiricism is aligned with a bias toward the left hemisphere. Yes I'm afraid I keep coming back to this theme of left hemispheric bias in our Western culture as it does seem to be foundational to the mess we are in. But it's worse than only sticking to what we can know through sensory experience - the left hemisphere doubles down on what it already knows and thus continues in an ever more myopic view of things. Far from being expansive it becomes more restrictive, and at the same time ever more sure that what it sees is the truth, the whole truth, so damned be God. We have to extract ourselves from this before we are all duped into a state of global surfdom through our own dim wittedness.
lol this seems to be a rebel O'Brian - it must be his twin brother in the inner party that you are thinking of ;-)
Bravo Mr.O'Brien!
This article is absolutely brilliant!!! Thank you for writing it! 🙌
Mr O'Brien - always a pleasure to hear from you, and as coherent as ever. I do believe what you are getting at in regards to the bias toward empiricism is aligned with a bias toward the left hemisphere. Yes I'm afraid I keep coming back to this theme of left hemispheric bias in our Western culture as it does seem to be foundational to the mess we are in. But it's worse than only sticking to what we can know through sensory experience - the left hemisphere doubles down on what it already knows and thus continues in an ever more myopic view of things. Far from being expansive it becomes more restrictive, and at the same time ever more sure that what it sees is the truth, the whole truth, so damned be God. We have to extract ourselves from this before we are all duped into a state of global surfdom through our own dim wittedness.
Another wonderful insightful letter from O'Brien. Thank you for sharing.
"It's all too much for me to take
The love that's shining all around You
Everywhere, it's what You make
For us to take, it's all too much"
It's All Too Much --- George Harrison