This Short Satire Piece Savages the Left Hemisphere in Action
To some extent, every piece of satire savages the L.H.
The left hemisphere loves knowledge like Silicon lords love ketamine. That high school hallway poster slogan, "Knowledge is power," turns knowledge into a two-bit whore: something to be used, maybe even abused, then tossed away when you're done with it.
What does the left hemisphere do with knowledge? It builds things. Weapons, preferably, but also systems and structures, concepts, and pretty much everything we use to short-cut our way through life so our bodies can survive and thrive.
The left hemisphere is so good at mushing up knowledge into usable substance that it comes to idolize those substances.
But they're merely figments of the left hemispheric mind. They're not real.
The result? Our culture gets populated with little idols, but they're all false or, rather, incomplete. Effective, yes, but not reflective of Reality. We then have a harsh juxtaposition between competing realities: the idols of the L.H. and Reality itself.
The satirist exploits this juxtaposition, mocking the L.H. idols by casting them against Reality.
This little piece at Herod's Herald mocks the L.H. idols at their most renegade, thuggish, and usurpatory: L.H. idols supplanting religious truth. It's an awful thing (especially when Church leaders become the prey of their left hemispheres and yield their little idols to throttle their flock).
Herod’s Herald
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Eric Scheske