Powerful and challenging conversation that touches on many topics discussed in this community. https://youtu.be/dkLA2nHSY2Y
McGilchrist's argument:
If you wanted to destroy humanity, you'd attack three things:
- Nature - ongoing for 200 years
- The body - denying we're embodied beings, that biological sex is real
- Culture - erasing history and tradition (what dictatorships do to demoralize conquered peoples)
He argues the left hemisphere loves concepts it has made because it has complete control over them. Increasingly, things that aren't made up by us are being claimed as merely social constructs.
Other key points:
- The inversion of Max Scheler's value hierarchy (utility/power now at top, sacred at bottom)
- How bureaucracy and AI both shift from servant to master
- Why fundamentalist certainty (left or right) is dangerous
- The need to balance fixed patterns (Halakha) with ceaseless striving (Agadah)
- Why "more faster" (hell, according to Hindu saying) is destroying proper understanding
McGilchrist has a lot of things nailed down, and (broadly speaking), has identified an underlying cause (hemispheric imbalance). Given this, it would be great if he could suggest how to get humanity's hemispheres rebalanced.
they post stuff like this and than get angry that we look down on them.
there are two options. They are stupid or they are disingenuous. But the inability to even understand the arguments of the other side is intrinsic.
Too long don't care
Ok, I made it through a quarter of the video and YAWN what a bunch of masturbatory nonsense. Such a dopey, sad, out of touch conversation with both host and "talent" taking forever to say so little.
average intellectual