tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6144325165831617503..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Liberal Fascism and Left Brain TyrannyGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60242267095730960422013-01-09T09:24:28.337-08:002013-01-09T09:24:28.337-08:00ge - I've been passing that Newseak article ar...ge - I've been passing that Newseak article around to friends and fam the past few days. It's more than a little alarming and now they don't want to talk to me. :-) <br /><br />Let's all Do the Collapse!robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36754087554953110922013-01-08T14:15:53.854-08:002013-01-08T14:15:53.854-08:00"Anger and aggressive behavior would become m...<i>"Anger and aggressive behavior would become more evident in our social interactions," since empathy is located in the right brain.</i><br /><br />Can I just plead guilty and be done with it? <br /><br />The European Union should rename itself as the Wholly Wet Cement Empire. <br /><br />I have always been skeptical of missionaries coming back with their stories of miraculous healings and supernatural manifestations in far away, uncivilized locations like Namibia, Inner Mongolia, or Lower Arkansas. People that I somewhat trust that have witnessed such things point to differences in the mindset.<br /><br />Being I really am from Missouri, I am still inclined to call most of it BS, but I suppose there could be a right-left dominance difference.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39467401709419389412013-01-08T14:00:15.723-08:002013-01-08T14:00:15.723-08:00ot, new newsweek [now no longer a real mag.] has l...ot, new newsweek [now no longer a real mag.] has long tom wolfe piece on facebook nerds, wall street quants:<br />http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek.htmlgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80872518805983768322013-01-08T12:55:45.987-08:002013-01-08T12:55:45.987-08:00I'm just reading in this history of the Cathol...I'm just reading in this history of the Catholic Church, how (paraphrasing here) the trivium dealt more with spiritual realities, while the quadrivium dealt more with material ones, very much in the spirit of right and left brain cooperation in a liberal education that aimed at liberating one from ignorance....Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66703823853771106442013-01-08T12:50:26.062-08:002013-01-08T12:50:26.062-08:00I think Godel must be the quintessential case of u...I think Godel must be the quintessential case of using the left to totally vindicate the right. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48182303839176073302013-01-08T12:38:53.814-08:002013-01-08T12:38:53.814-08:00Some random comments (as I follow along far behind...Some random comments (as I follow along far behind in the book):<br /><br />Despite a supposed norm from religion, Kant also "essentially tries to use the left brain to find an escape hatch from the left brain." So it's gotta be the right kind of norm.<br /><br />Also, two instances of wonderful bucking the tide by people with very, very powerful left-brains: 1: Maxwell champions Faraday precisely because (it seems to me) Faraday kept his left-brain thoroughly subordinate. So in Faraday, and even more in Maxwell who was a mathematical (i.e. left-brain) superhero, we have scientists who tamed the emissary in science itself.<br /><br />And the final example is Alexander Humboldt -- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Humboldts-Cosmos-Gerard-Helferich/dp/1592401066/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357677365&sr=8-1&keywords=humboldt%27s+cosmos" rel="nofollow">Humboldt's Cosmos</a> -- who did amazing things to try to show the German Romantics that they needed to embrace and use their left-brain in order to vindicate the vision of the right.David J Quackenbushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11873818923450408281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9832524341038090682013-01-08T12:29:33.378-08:002013-01-08T12:29:33.378-08:00In it he presents a picture of what the world of t...<i>In it he presents a picture of what the world of the left hemisphere would look like, and it looks awfully familiar: ...</i><br /><br />Does he not see that, with the exception of those who willfully choose otherwise, that's exactly the world we've got? juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21756434416129550482013-01-08T12:18:41.081-08:002013-01-08T12:18:41.081-08:00Skorpion - yes, that was a good one. Apropos, Sipp...Skorpion - yes, that was a good one. Apropos, Sippican has <a href="http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2013/01/i-wouldnt-mind-going-to-paris-to-see.html" rel="nofollow">this pithy observation</a> today: "We are mostly living in the ruins of civilizations we could not now make ourselves. Hope it holds out a while."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25326214468442921122013-01-08T11:20:16.741-08:002013-01-08T11:20:16.741-08:00Here's an interesting essay by Daniel Greenfie...Here's an interesting essay by Daniel Greenfield (AKA Sultan Knish) that looks at the sociological implications of what you've been discussing: <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-civilized-savage.html" rel="nofollow">The Civilized Savage</a>.Michael Marinaccihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15723529424493212341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16263144031255834492013-01-08T10:31:51.953-08:002013-01-08T10:31:51.953-08:00Instead of L and R, you could just say science and...Instead of L and R, you could just say science and religion, time and eternity, particle and wave, ocean and drop, etc. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42692223486115403842013-01-08T10:29:41.218-08:002013-01-08T10:29:41.218-08:00Yes, I don't see how a person could incarnate ...Yes, I don't see how a person could incarnate in a nervous system that isn't simultaneously particularistic and holistic. Its proper function should be R-->L-->R, so the particularization always results in a higher synthesis and more complex unity. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47236081590412052342013-01-08T10:10:30.434-08:002013-01-08T10:10:30.434-08:00OBAMA-BIDEN
sure reads like
OSAMA-BINLADEN
seen s...OBAMA-BIDEN<br />sure reads like<br />OSAMA-BINLADEN <br />seen suddenly <br />from the paragraph above!<br /><br />Brain doesn't create Mind---<br />but more like tunes it in<br />The enlightened Mind Buddha & all sages became one with <br />is God, never changing, always impersonably becomeable hallelujahgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.com