Living Off the Grid If modernity is the left hemisphere's creation, then pursuits that appeal to the right hemisphere, or require us to give primacy to the right hemisphere, are acts of rebellion against modernity. Example 1: Prose is the left hemisphere's flex: the earliest written records are from bureaucrats.
Strolling Through Spines for Solace and Sobriety “I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.’” The man with owl-eyed spectacles, The Great Gatsby. I sit, in a battered, leather chair. It affords me a view of all three ceiling-to-floor bookcases
The First Catholic Cleric to Go Over to Saruman (and the Left Hemisphere)? In the early nineteenth century, the “tormented, headstrong Breton priest”[1] Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais changed fundamental Christian doctrines to justify socialism. His career illustrates the damage that can be done by presenting socialism as authentic religious doctrine, especially when an individual or group has established the illusion of