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Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, Western society has benefited from science, logic, and reductionism over intuition and holism.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
Ancient bodies and brains, modern culture, disruptive technologies, each pulling in different directions. The wheel is not only out of round, it’s also accelerating. This is a recipe for disaster.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
... See moreOur brains have not evolved much in thousands of years and are subject to all sorts of constraints including evolved heuristics that lead to misunderstanding, delusion, and violence particularly under pressure. There is a terrible mismatch between the sort of people that routinely dominate mission critical political institutions and the s
The collective mind of our culture is largely anti-intellectual and shallow, lacking the intellectual categories or ability to think deeply about things that matter most. Many are guided more by feeling and desire than by reason.
Paul M. Gould • Cultural Apologetics
the world’s most visible public intellectuals today more often revive or reassert old ideas, rather than generating new ones. The result is that old zombie orthodoxies survive far longer than they should.