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The Hemisphere Hypothesis

The Hemisphere Hypothesis

Iain McGilchrist explains how our left hemispheres have gone rogue. The left hemisphere is meant to serve the right hemisphere, but it has usurped its master's position. This usurpation is the essence of modernity. It cripples society and each one of us individually because it disconnects people from full reality: only the right hemisphere connects to the Tao and the full spectrum of reality that it leads to. "[T]he god who got things done bore the name of Moloch." GKC

Iain McGilchrist Interview on Russell Brand's Stay Free: A Few Highlights

I listened to Russell Brand's Stay Free yesterday. I came because he was interviewing Iain McGilchrist. I stayed because Brand is smart (I always figured he was a clown), fast, and funny. I've only listened to the McGilchrist but I'm getting a Rumble account

Artificial Intelligence Has No Right Hemisphere: Video

Artificial Intelligence Has No Right Hemisphere: Video

Libertarians and the Left (Hemisphere)

Libertarians and the Left (Hemisphere)

Brad Birzer reviews a new book about major figures in the libertarian tradition. Needless to say, I now want to buy it, but I'm holding back. I had a drink with one of Birzer's friends a few weeks ago. I think he's probably less

Live Like Hobbits

Live Like Hobbits

That's apparently the advice in a new book, "The Reactionary Mind," by Michael Warren Davis. It seems to me that Foucault's "counter-conduct" is becoming the number one obsession today, at least among people who think about . . . or at least feel . . . the left-hemisphere&

You're Getting Played, but That's Alright

You're Getting Played, but That's Alright

From last Saturday's "Outside the Modern Limits"

Poetic Language isn't Modern Language . . . for a Reason

Poetic Language isn't Modern Language . . . for a Reason

💡A side benefit of this essay: It succinctly states what makes poetry different from other forms of writing: Poetry is concerned primarily with creating images that delight us with their economy and elegance. The Integrity of PoetryMicah Mattix at First ThingsThe Daily EudemonTDE Michael Oakeshott maintains that the intellectual life

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump

💡I wrote the following decades ago. In light of the Hemisphere Hypothesis, I re-consider it. Is Forrest a left hemispheric or a right hemispheric? If his odd character is on "the Spectrum," he's a man bereft of the right hemisphere (autism is left-hemispheric). But maybe he&

Leftists Trying Not to be Gnostics

Leftists Trying Not to be Gnostics

Current Affairs seems like a worthwhile magazine. It describes itself as "the left magazine for people skeptical of leftism." Based on this essay, it seems pretty far left . . . Bernie Sanders-left . . . but intellectually honest left. In the perspective of the Hemisphere Hypothesis, an "intellectually honest" leftist is

The Right Hemisphere Way of Therese Lisieux

The Right Hemisphere Way of Therese Lisieux

St. Therese's is the "little way." The left hemisphere values the big. The left hemisphere demands answers and solutions, which require increasingly large effort. The Little Way is a rebuke of such a disposition. She placed no value on abstractions, opting instead for the real and

Joe Rogan's Rant Against Christianity

Joe Rogan's Rant Against Christianity

If you want to see something startling, watch this clip from the Joe Rogan Experience. Now, I think Rogan is one of the most entertaining interviewers ever and I find him to be respectful and open to ideas, but at times, his views come out . . . and they come out strong