I've been reading Ian McGilchrist's great book The Matter with Things and it explains how most in this society are left brain obsessed, like the analytical column in your article.
ANALytical thinkers are why this society is fucked up, cause they're morons with half the picture. The section about multiple variables is why academic fields are like idiots with blinders on. In college, nobody seemed to be able to comprehend how there's a lot more variables than what physicists etc want to admit.
That's why we constantly hear of idiotic things like dark matter and don't get me started on how backwards biology has become.
Life is a very valuable gift even if to other eyes not well lived. We have a bit of a slippery slope there Ray. Faith is also a slippery slope when reason states X your disability or your life measured by Y is not up to snuff. Schweitzer was a humanitarian. He taught himself medicine. He raised money for his hospital by giving organ recitals across Europe. I will take one Schweitzer for 10 NGO's. And he was a man of the 19th century with all the prejudices. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dr-albert-schweitzer-a-renowned-medical-missionary-with-a-complicated-history
The only entities I find worthy of worship are plants and trees. They have existed here long long before any other creatures did. Billions of years before us, before creatures, there were plants. We are the 'young' ones relative to them. And they give us all we need. Sadly, the patenting of seeds that began a half century ago should have told us where this was all going. Some people did try to warn us then.
Thanks Ray. Great post.
I've been reading Ian McGilchrist's great book The Matter with Things and it explains how most in this society are left brain obsessed, like the analytical column in your article.
ANALytical thinkers are why this society is fucked up, cause they're morons with half the picture. The section about multiple variables is why academic fields are like idiots with blinders on. In college, nobody seemed to be able to comprehend how there's a lot more variables than what physicists etc want to admit.
That's why we constantly hear of idiotic things like dark matter and don't get me started on how backwards biology has become.
Life is a very valuable gift even if to other eyes not well lived. We have a bit of a slippery slope there Ray. Faith is also a slippery slope when reason states X your disability or your life measured by Y is not up to snuff. Schweitzer was a humanitarian. He taught himself medicine. He raised money for his hospital by giving organ recitals across Europe. I will take one Schweitzer for 10 NGO's. And he was a man of the 19th century with all the prejudices. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dr-albert-schweitzer-a-renowned-medical-missionary-with-a-complicated-history
The only entities I find worthy of worship are plants and trees. They have existed here long long before any other creatures did. Billions of years before us, before creatures, there were plants. We are the 'young' ones relative to them. And they give us all we need. Sadly, the patenting of seeds that began a half century ago should have told us where this was all going. Some people did try to warn us then.