Left brain fantasies and postmodernism

 

Someone must help me with the following conundrum. Where did the idea originate that if we have a problem that the government ought to solve it? This belief invariably results in creating a far greater problem than the one the government allegedly intended to solve. Why is it that I so seldom hear, “I want the government to get the hell out of my life”? I prefer to solve my own problems, thank you very much! Despite the overwhelming evidence of the failure of state mandated solutions people still refuse to act as autonomous agents of self determination.

 

I'm a Classical Liberal in the English sense and as such I am of the opinion, that I have no right or expertise to tell others how to live. Which is why I believe in the free market of production, sales, resource distribution, and most of all, of ideas. It is historically provable that free markets and open competition without state interference outperform all other economic and philosophical systems.

 

But now I will attempt to answer my own rhetorical question regarding why folk still believe the state is capable of solving problems that it most likely helped to create. The reason the left demands managed and controlled markets, which include controlling ideas, is due to their attachment to a mechanistic view of the world. They have rejected the gestalt which can only occur in the right hemisphere of our brains where the perception of the world around us is living, vibrant, and changing while imbuing life with meaning. It is the right-brain which is responsible for creativity, and as importantly, our intuition. Which is why the Postmodern left claims that their opponents are conspiracy theorists even when the weight of evidence proves a mechanistic view of the world is unrealistic. It's also why the left thinks that they can control everything around them including people, the economy, resource distribution, and the environment. These delusions are the direct result of a right-brain deficit disorder shared by collectivist societies which have rejected individualism.

 

And I ain't about to go Borg. Resistance is NEVER futile. Resisting evil and pursuing higher good is, or at least ought to be, the most vital of all human endeavors. But let us examine why such a mechanistic world view is unscientific. Newtonian Physics provided mankind with a very certain and mechanistic model for how the world operates. 19^th Century man became convinced that science would soon explain all the mysteries of how the universe operates. But then came a discovery that soon upset the applecart, namely Quantum Mechanics.

 

“Quantum Mechanics formulations started in the early 1900s and the caught the eye of physicists around the world, with more and more acceptability being given to it. The Copenhagen Interpretation by Niels Bohr and Heisenberg in 1925-27 is the widely accepted form of quantum mechanics. It has changed the very nature of physics and it has radically changed our understanding of the universe and our place in it.

 

Quantum Mechanics ushered in the era of the "participatory universe" where the observer, the observed and the act of observation all are interlinked. This shattered the ideas of classical physics, where an independent observer can observe the universe independently and understand it. According to Quantum Mechanics, the observer is affecting the universe by the mere act of observation and affects not only the present but the past as well, thereby changing our notion of the linearity of time.

 

So, we can no longer think of the universe from the point of view of independent observation; it is not independent (each part of the universe is connected to each other) and we are not independent observers. Rather we shape the universe by our observation and action.”

https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/how-has-field-quantum-mechanics-changed-our-475863

 

Furthermore, Quantum Mechanics demands imagination, something that the left-brain which behaves as a high functioning bureaucrat simply cannot grasp. Engels and Marx theory was the result of a completely mechanistic left-brain view of the world indicative of the 19^th Century in which they lived. It also relies on the idea that human beings are born into this world as Tabula Rasa “blank slates” who therefore may have anything written on them. The radical left believes that all human behaviour, beliefs, morays, morals, and culture are mere social constructs which may be altered at will via social engineering. These ideas have proven to be false on several fronts, partly as a result of work done in evolutionary psychology, Jungian psychology, and certainly in physics where Quantum Mechanics have scientifically demonstrated the shortcomings of Newtonian Physics.

 

The greatest scientific discoveries resulted from imagining first then testing the hypotheses for validity while a left-brain view of the world demands certainty. Phrases like, “the science is settled”, “climate change deniers”, and “conspiracy theories” are used to promote the officially sanctioned narrative. Language itself must be made subordinate to this Postmodern left-brain mechanistic view of the world. A mechanistic view outdated 107 years ago when Einstein developed his Theory of Relativity. Out of necessity the Postmodern left ideology demands certainty. They exist in a world which cannot abide contradiction. A world dedicated to the scientism I spoke about in my previous podcast which has replaced actual science. They exist in a world intolerant of the apparent inconsistencies we know to be inherent to the study of Quantum Physics.

 

But before I wade into these waters deeper than a man of my limited expertise in fields of human psychology, quantum physics, and philosophy ought to, allow me to point you toward Dr. Iain McGilchrist. His explanation of why our current cultural zeitgeist has become so soul crushing and toxic has been nothing short of revelatory for me. McGilchrist has written what I consider to be the most significant work of its kind, “The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58955313-the-matter-with-things published on 9th November 2021. Dr. McGilchrist stated, "I believe that our vision has been hijacked by a brain system that evolved merely in order to help us manipulate the world, not to understand it...', which is why I am convinced that the phenomenon he describes in “The Matter with Things” has become the defining feature of the Postmodern Academy and of our current political landscape. I invite you to watch this three-part series featuring Dr. McGilchrist with world renown comic writer and actor John Cleese of Monty Python fame at the following links. Enjoy them as I did and let us all reawaken ourselves to a fuller a richer world where there is real diversity of thought and open inquiry so that we may rid ourselves of this dreadful mechanistic view of existence.

Part One: https://youtu.be/S4rdZt_fe5k

Part Two: https://youtu.be/QXxzkU2oeco

Part Three: https://youtu.be/qMTA1qP4yC0

 

 

 

 

 

Mystery and Mythos

 

We live in a fragmented world, a world dedicated to the atomization of understanding, a world governed by scientism rather than science. This is a world dominated by the left brain. It is a view of the world which is lacking in gestalt. Today I would like to discuss with you why scientism has become an ideological parasite. Scientism is the result of looking at things detached from the whole to which they belong. Therefore, today we are seeing many examples of the unintended consequences of our collective actions. The unintended consequences which have resulted from applying simplistic solutions to multivariate complex problems without using our right brain. For it is only in the right brain where gestalt can happen. The right brain allows us to bring together disparate things to form a living entirety.

 

Partly this is the result of modern man's rejection of the mystical. Spirituality and enlightened ascendance can only exist in the realm of the mystical. And our atomised understanding of the world historically is a recent phenomenon. We evolved over countless eons being informed by the mystical. If this did not serve an evolutionary purpose our love of mythos would not exist. Yet modern men reject such narratives. We have come to believe that by parsing the world into inanimate bits and pieces so that we can examine each piece as though it was not part of a larger hole that we can understand how things operate. This is what I refer to as scientism. But evolutionary biology, in specific human evolutionary biology, rejects such a view of the world. The human brain evolved complex mechanisms of intuition that exist only in the right-hemisphere. It is in the right hemisphere the detached and disembodied can become embodied to present a living whole. One of the great problems in developing artificial intelligence is that we do not understand how our intuition operates, why it so often informs us correctly without us understanding the processes of how we arrived at our conclusions. Moreover, if we were to stop and try to explain how we make such judgments we would be unable to breakdown the processes to define them. It would be like asking a brilliant jazz improviser to break down their improvisation into each note. The instant one asks such a question is the very instant when the artist would become soulless and mechanistic.

 

It is in the right brain that our sense of wonder occurs. Piloerection is the phenomenon of wonder that happens when we are struck with awe over something we find deeply moving. Whether we are looking at a beautiful piece of art, or listening to a moving piece of music, we encounter patterns of discovery, and through their beauty we experience a heightened sense of enlightenment. By the same token we instantly know if there is discord and lack of harmony when we encounter the ugly or mechanistic without being able to define why we perceive it to be so. The same may be said for spiritual experiences which evoke a feeling of being in the presence of the Divine, experiences which this materialistic world rejects.

 

This atomised understanding of human existence has devolved life’s mystery into meaningless collisions of matter in an endless cascade of creation and destruction. The result has been our present prevalent nihilism, the belief that there is no absolute truth, just subjective experiences. Which is why Postmodernists believe that we can be anything we choose to be at any given moment, since there is no reality, no way of looking at the world to bring things together into a meaningful entirety. Their faith in scientism fails to grasp that as much as we know that we really know nothing. Real science is never settled. But how do we find meaning in a world rife with scientism?

 

First let me ask a question, if the materialists actually believed there was no truth, then why wouldn't they allow others to find peace, joy, and satisfaction wherever it may be found, particularly in a belief in the Divine? After all, if there is no truth why would it matter what anyone believes? The very fact that the materialists are turning our lives into an atomised dystopia is ipso facto proof that they do have a hierarchy of beliefs. It demonstrates that they do in fact believe in something. Otherwise, they wouldn't insist that we believe as they do. Yes, their own belief system deconstructs itself because they have rejected the mystery and so they live in a contradiction resulting in cognitive dissonance.

 

To the ancient Greeks logos, which describes a left-brain way of looking at the world, was not where ultimate truth was to be found. No, to the ancient Greeks ultimate truth was to be found in mythos. The stories which for countless eons humans have told which help to define in metaphorical terms this infinitely complex world. The stories which are found in mythos are truer then if they were scientifically true. Science tells us nothing about why we see a dynamic, ever changing, and potentially dangerous world the way we do and why we react to it as we do. This is why Jesus spoke to us in parables, so that we could understand mysteries metaphorically. In a certain regard Evangelical Christians share the same delusion that atheists who believe in scientism have, namely that the Scriptures must be literally scientifically true in a historical sense in order for them to be true. But the Bible wasn’t written by scientists and historians. Even the four Gospels do not tell the same story in the identical way but nevertheless the metaphors that they contain are the same and truer than anything else we may hold as Truth. Why?  Because they refer to the same Divine phenomenon. So, this mechanical and atomistic view of the world is now shared by atheists and Christians alike. But in doing so both reject the gestalt of the mysteries revealed in the Scriptures. In the coming together of disparate parts to form a living whole.

 

And so, mankind comes full circle. Out of the Renaissance, onto the Reformation, and on again to the Age of Enlightenment mankind came to view the world scientifically while coming to reject the grand narrative which once defined it. Nietzsche was not rejoicing when he wrote about the death of God and the fact that we had killed him. Furthermore, it was his belief that we had to create our own value structure which has proven to be a murderous impossibility. It is time to revivify the soul of society which has been lost by rejecting the Divine Mystery. God cannot be apprehended ". It takes a revelation of discovery to uncover what has always been there, namely our Divine calling. A mystical journey through revelation of Christ Jesus and Him crucified and resurrected. Moreover, that we also are crucified and resurrected with Him to be seated at the right hand of God the Father above all the troubles of this current age. An age which has given itself to a satanic view of reality. I invite you on this journey but do not expect your left brain to understand the path. Give yourself over to the mystery while taking up your cross to follow Him.