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