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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

A Hemisphere Hypothesis Meditation on Pieper's Abuse of Language

A Hemisphere Hypothesis Meditation on Pieper's Abuse of Language

Attempts to define the Tao are like a retard trying to stick his head out of a closed car window. Sad, pitiful, and comical. Until he gets so frustrated that he smashes the window with a hammer. Fresh air rushes in but so do shards of glass. Bust up the

We Value Knowledge Like the Jerk-Off Values Porn

We Value Knowledge Like the Jerk-Off Values Porn

A mini-meditation on Josef Pieper's "Knowledge and Freedom"

More Snoring, Less Beltway Whoring

More Snoring, Less Beltway Whoring

The Hemisphere Hypothesis won’t teach you how to wrench a lug nut off a busted tire and it won’t tell you how to deal with the beard in your daughter’s locker room. For all its highfalutin talk about brain wiring and reality, it’s about as useful

Majeres Applies McGilchrist

Majeres Applies McGilchrist

Back in 2009, Iain McGilchrist unleashed The Master and His Emissary upon a world too distracted to notice its own decay. This bestseller was merely a prelude to his magnum opus, The Matter with Things—a sprawling, 1,500-page odyssey that starts with the Master’s Hemisphere Hypothesis and ends

Gimme Silence or Give Me Death

Gimme Silence or Give Me Death

Because without silence, there is no life

McGilchrist Finds Gnosticism . . . and the Thought of Eric Voegelin

McGilchrist Finds Gnosticism . . . and the Thought of Eric Voegelin

I've maintained for years that these two thinkers needed to get together. It finally happened.

The Everyday Problem That is the Left Hemisphere

The Everyday Problem That is the Left Hemisphere

The left hemisphere of your brain is a miserable little tyrant, a penny-ante dictator strutting around in the gray matter. Don’t believe me? Look at the everyday modern life that the left hemisphere has given us. It’s one big prick-fest, a carnival of impatience and irritation where every

The Battle of the Hemispheres

The Battle of the Hemispheres

So, fear’s the new punk squatting in the pantheon of mortal sins. That oozing narcissism, born from the left hemisphere’s tyrannical stranglehold on our skulls, lights up our amygdalas like a cheap firecracker every time our little empire of self gets a scratch. It’s a meltdown, a

Four Reformers

Four Reformers

I had a chance last month to booze it up at Sloppy Joe’s in Key West, but by the time I came across it, I’d already guzzled enough gin to fill a Prohibition-era bathtub, so I skipped it. Bad on me. Sloppy Joe’s was Hemingway’s haunt

AI's Little Victories Add Up to Huge Defeat

AI's Little Victories Add Up to Huge Defeat

A malign pincer grips our weary souls as I peck out these words in the bleak dawn of early 2025. You feel it too. That dull ache in your ribcage ain't a cardiac event. It's the life force being throttled out of you by a twin-pronged