Iain McGilchrist (World-Renowned Psychiatrist)
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The Left Hemisphere's Disadvantages
I would have predicted from enslavement by being hypnotized by this left hemispheric way of thinking. It abstracts, takes things out of context, gets rid of their individuality, fits them into a mechanical model. Now, if you start doing that in society, what you will get is a great deal of opposition and resentment. And eventually you will get populist people who will not be doing good, but will be voted for because they alone seem to have any possibility of moving things away From the world which I think has been generated by patronizing liberal middle class intellectuals.
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