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Richard Heinberg

Team Human

CHAPTER

How Can We Use These Outsized Powers Without Getting in Trouble?

The left brain is the more linguistic part, and it kind of tooko most of the directive functions of our personality. We have these amazing abilities that other animals don't have, and right now we're using them to drive those other species to extinction in ways that are going to have catastrophic consequences. How can we use these outsize powers without doing that? Well, you know, used them for spiritual and aesthetic purposes, which a lot of ancient cultures did. Anda, making art is a way of kind of taming that rant and letting te other half of the brain have its have its say.

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