The Culture Wars is Full of Angry NARCISISSTIC Idiots - Dr. Iain McGilchrist
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Dr. Iain McGilchrist believes that the different left-right hemispheres of the divided brain are stoking the culture wars and leading to a deluded world. He is a psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar. McGilchrist came to prominence after the publication of his book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Today, he speaks of how art and beauty are fighting a losing battle due to the traits of one hemisphere of our brain.
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#antiwoke #psychology #dei
I'm 58 plus years old and I've never seen so many unhappy people wandering around the world, both on and offline. Its absolutely insane. As much as I love modernity, the internet and all the other trappings of the current era, the same tools have driven people, on both sides, I may add, into magical thinking mixed with insane suppositions and very stupid aggressive behaviours. Unfortunately, those very type of people will not watch great conversations like this and continue down their echo chambers, both literally and figuratively.
Well said. Couldn't have put it better m'self.
Everybody is convinced that their unique qualities are a mental health issue.
Agree
Start looking at truth fearlessly. Your self respect will compensate.
Yeah you keep thinking like that...soon you'll be homeless, criminalized for being poor, and farmed out for prison labor and organs. Things are insanely and obscenely bad. Just because you might have it a little better doesn't mean there arn't those ready to kick out your stool. You better start punching up instead of down. This country started out and succeeded by putting parasitic elites in their place...not bootlicking. 300 people can be fed by 1 farmer. Property is just overpriced dirt. Most meds cost pennies to make and all of the good ones came from taxpayer funded open source research. Adjusted for inflation and GDP growth, the average worker should be making well over 100k with a 3 day workweek and free healthcare. There's absolutely zero reasons why anyone on this space rock at our level of technological advancement should go without food, clean water shelter, education, and medical care....unless it's by design...and the later should make everyone including you VERY worried about where this is all heading.
Jung said "certainty has a price, its either paid in the past or the future"
Narcissistic megalomaniacs with coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate communities, and opulent opportunities, yes. 🙄 It's embarrassing, too. Reflection is absent, intelligence is minimal, and introspection is--to quote Monty Python--"RIGHT out".
You should have said corpulence instead of opulence.
Ok so now I am wondering if I have got caught in the left brain trap because I am pretty closed minded about pedophilia being just plain wrong and I am not really interested in putting myself in their place and having empathy or opening up to other options for them other than prison
That doesn't make you closed minded, that makes you sane. No one should be defending pedophiles.
I'm totally with you on this one. I feel sick and angry just thinking about it. However, I think it's the act of discrimination here which is key. Just because you've tried to consider a different point of view (any point of view), it doesn't mean you have to agree with or support that view. I watched a very interesting program about men who self identified as paedophiles and who said they had never acted (and never wished to act) upon their desires. They said they loathed themselves and deliberately absented themselves from situations where they would be in unaccompanied contact with children. And whereas I respect those individuals if they were telling the truth, I am nevertheless very comfortable with entirely repudiating paedophilia.
But you're the very people who hate China & Russia for being brutal on their misfits & extremists?! No LGBTQ movement extremists or violent criminals walking free there
Righteous anger against pedos is the last fallback in a civilization that’s surrendered every other moral to relativism. But it shall fail as well. If your civilization has no transcendent grounding, anything goes (eventually).
That is not being closed minded, its having moral standards, something sorely missing for many people these days, this weaponized compassion/tolerance thing has been out of hand since the early 90's
To quote Adam Smith, "beware the man of system".
In these chaotic times Dr Gilchrist is unfortunately too wise reasonable and polite to be listened to with fervour :/
Ironically he is advocating for chaos over order.
Assuming Dr. McGilchrist is correct, I wonder if he has any theories on what may be damaging all of these people's right hemispheres?
I know the mainstream says these individuals are made, I believe there is a genetic component
Microplastics and pesticides 😅
Listening to other people with this self induced injury.
Childhood trauma, That causes ALL the issues on this planet. Look up Alice Millar.
@@JohnSmith-lk8cy I have come to learn this and agree. As I have said to my dysfunctional family members, "I know why I behave the way I do and I know why YOU behave the way you do... Do you know why you behave like you do?" and the answer is NO. These types are no different. The toxic patterns of behavior are learned and the only thing that varies is how their learned mentalities manifest. It's actually very basic psychology but most people are allergic to self-reflection to the point of not even being willing to accept that.
I spent the afternoon yesterday asking ChatGPT questions that I thought would reveal whether it was woke. On some issues it surprisingly wasn’t. For example when asked about the horrors of communism it had a wealth of information and didn’t hold back on the details.
When asked if DEI was discriminatory it dithered around, obfuscating, ignoring questions, refusing to acknowledge points made. The same sort of gaslighting we get in the real world.
Where it performed the absolute worst in my opinion was in relation to that bogus claim about 230 children being buried in a mass grave at the Kamloops residential school in Canada.
On a positive note it was possible to get it into a corner by asking it to supply simple yes no questions without elaboration.
Kind of like the real world I suppose except that in the real world it isn’t as possible to reason people into a position they do not already hold.
Would be fascination to see a proper study done into the question: Is ChatGPT woke?
It is something we need to know for obvious reasons.
Sorry for the hammering in the background at 3:00. I really needed to get that sink in - Elon.
It was sinkopation
Right-hemisphere work needs to continue while left-hemisphere chat goes on.
It is not inappropriate to criticize experts as is said here in reference to Richard Dawkins and Dunning Kruger. .
Faucci jumps to mind as well as our green energy experts our financial experts and so many more clearly need rejecting.
I can't get on board with the idea that "transgender is real" and not delusion.
The tradition of mysticism in the Catholic Church tells us not to trust the visions that come in on the left side of the seers visual field, because it comes from the devil. The visions that come in on the right side are worth consideration and the visions that come in, in the center illuminate.
Notice that the west turned to ideologies, specifically Marxist left wing ideology when the people turned away from Christianity, and when over 95 percent of the people practiced their faith in the True God, there was no ideological thinking outside of the lieing pens of an odd scholar in the academy.
I've got nothing to say on the Left brained vs right brained religious visions, as I am completely unfamiliar... But one comment I will make....
I don't think that there was ever 95% adherence to the Christian faith. Christ and the apostles themselves warned us that the path is rocky, the gate is narrow, few will be chosen, many will claim God's name and profess belief, yet Jesus said that on the day of judgement he will say, "Get away from me you evil-doers, I never knew you."
We have a tendency to look back on some imagined past, When everyone was in accord, and we mostly were in alignment in a wonderful society....
Things are getting worse. I think that many of us can see that. And Dr. McG is spot on in many ways.... Love his contribution to the intellectual Commons. But be careful not to construct an idealized reality that never happened
@@neilpace well it was the case in Ireland up untill the 1980s, and further back it was also the case in other European countries. Now whether they were all sincere is another matter. Anyway, my point is that Christian thinking permeated all aspects of society to the extent that anyone following an ideology came across as closed and narrow minded.
@@outoforbit00 fair enough...
Cheers mate
You do know that your "True God" has a history and from the perspective of the Egyptians was the just an evil mother F***** called Seth, aka their version of the devil that predates Christianity. I don't blame them for calling a supposed deity who would commit infanticide with glee an evil god...
Good old Dunning-kruger effect! The more i learn, the less i know.
The more you learn the larger your awareness. Of how much you still don't understand expands.
Watch out for people without doubts. Doubts are an honest psychological reaction to an imperfect reality perpetually in Flux.
My left PFC was damaged at 2 years old. Its very hard to communicate with people. Which sucks because I discovered the underlying mechanisms of cognition, maths, science, the universe, Geometric Cognition but im so overwhelmed trying to turn it into something left brain thinkers can digest.
Well, we still need people like you.
You simply cannot talk to a lot of people. They get angry or ignore you. We are surrounded by envious malevolence, impossible Equality, wars,, pestilence, disease, lies built along lies, inverted responsibility, genocide, hate. All this is protected by the stone wall of apathy, narcissism and unbelievable stupidity. I'm trying to understand it, Mcgilchrists book helped, so did the free PDF Political Ponerology.
Wonderful conversation
The machine observation reflects that our views are being shaped by giant machines called corporations. To corporations, we are not individuals but demographics and their perspective has been taught to the public as the "correct" one. We ideally should think like people, not like companies.
Do the Humanities really teach people how to think and evaluate any more? Ideological capture seems the norm.
Sat in on a friend's "human geography" lecture last week, and they were going over "Marxist geography". I can't make this up, like one week in and we're talking about the Communist Manifesto.
It's still theoretically neutral, and at least one guy in the class seemed eager to criticize all the leftist positions that came up. So many people still are curious and open.
Humanities is what you study, if you can't do Mathematics. :)
@@NorfolkScepticI think maths is very useful in the Humanities.
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But very few are proficient at it.
Grew up Rural Forgotten America, but it was Classical Education I they called it but this was the 80s and it feels likes we were taught in two entirely different Countries. Its weird honestly seriously as a Woman this Chaos going on is annoying, dont know what to call it yet its seeping into everything. Its really disturbing we had to vet the schools also no offense we dont want that here. Families can be traced back to 1880s they came over its a group up in the town yonder is more Sweden, Valley Here its Norwegians and hop, skip, jump, the two villages is Scottish and Irish.. We dont want any BS around here, we come and help each other when theirs trouble, or sickness, or natural disaster....this chaos is horrible.
Isnt it what the Seven fundamentals of what our Forefathers believed in? Isn't it more because of the Industrial Revolution that happened especially after the WW2?. We are A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC if We can Keep IT!!!!We went to far on both sides...😢
It's class warfare. A sociologist , Rob Henderson, calls it luxury beliefs. There is a reason that only privileged people fall for this or promote it because the virtue signaling is to reinforce their own power position. That is why they don't actually care about the minorities, they are just useful shields. Like how those that live in gated communities are fine with removing the police because they are still secure either way. It is always the same story, champagne socialists. Like the hippies were privileged kids because poor people have to work.
I have been wondering about all this crazy shit going on. You know, Im an old school, middle aged, fairly straight white man who grew up in a conservitave community. All these funny people put me off.
Then I got thinking a bit. When rock and roll came around folks like me thought this is from the devil himself. But then came the beatniks, hippies etc etc. Every time things evened out again.
What bussiness is it of mine anyway what little games people want to play with their own lives. I can only control my own, so I just let them be and go on with my own life.
If others get in my or those close to me's face about how we live I tell them to go to hell. If they dont listen they have a fight on their hands, and I am not someone to trifle with. I dont mean hitting, but hurting others with words. Once you hurt someone, they tend to leave you alone. Problem solved.
Thank you very much...
Kids are going to be brushing their teeth in the toilet and peeing in the sink!!! 😱
The question is how to counter the left?
People always say I exaggerate but I do believe that much of the conflict in today's society comes from the "death of the author" philosophy. In its initial form, I don't have anything against it, a body of work should be able to be understood by just looking at that body of work. However, it has been taken to extremes. When people start to reinterpret the author's work and not try to understand what they were trying to say or the characters within our doing out there feeling inset projecting their situation upon, well that's the death of empathy.
At the same time, the failure of the author to speak in the language of the audience, such that they would interpret as he intended, is also a death of empathy. You won't be around forever to tell us how to read the work, so say what you have to say, within the work, in a language that we understand.
@@BalthasarCarduelis No even if the author is clear things can be turned on their head and reinterpreted through enough lenses that it's just bending to the reader's point of view. Besides it's not like the death of the author is the law of the land. Some authors write in a way where you need more contacts to appreciate it. It boils down to are you willing to listen to somebody else? Can you conceive something different than what you already believe?
@@erickiernan1578 Even if things can be turned on their heads and reinterpreted, still the author must speak the language of his audience lest there be ONLY reinterpretation. To deny this is to have no empathy for the audience.
I have a high IQ and I feel like my consciousness is primarily positioned in the right side of my brain, the left side is only useful for simple boring tasks like "draw a straight line"
Average Joe Bloe here: isn’t the problem that society rewards those who come up with quick, superficial answers to problems? I think I veer more “to the right” and can never take a decision - “well, it could be this, but on the other hand, it could be that”
"Trolley-dash around the internet" - brilliant 🎉 thanks, great points, great & reflective thinker. Good work @Andrew Gold
That doesn't make sense. Culture wars are emphasizing criticism vs empathy to understand other POV? How is one to discuss differing opinions on matters of public interest if not by comparing stats and conclusions? Everyone should be right according to him sounds like.
the subdivision of function berween the hemispheres that Ian bases his hypotesis on is nothing but a myth.
There are functional differences as proven when the hemispheres were surgically separated because of extreme epilepsy. But the idea it affects ideology is goofy, I agree.
@@Nylon_riot yes but that is a very pathological state that cannot be used for a healthy whole brain.
@@Nylon_riot @matswessling6600 is it possible that you are the exact examples of what they are talking about in this interview? What credentials/ studies do you have to have such opinions?
Great interview.
I would like to hear Dr. McGilchrist's views on Neuralink, not so sure he would comment favourably.
I’ve long had this feeling that the 20th century was a time that God turned the world over to the devil. Now in the 21st, we’re living in the aftermath.
14:13 I'm reminded of Principal Skinner saying, "Am I really so out of touch? No. No, it's the children who are wrong." 😂
Would Oxford or Cambridge university 🤔
Have a planned way to accommodate Furies ? 😊
Yeah...the ones they're fighting against.
Dr. McGilchrist has not had 9 credit hours of calculus apparently. That teaches you how to think about things. You know shooting a cannon out of a train leaving Chicago into the window of a car traveling to Denver while breaking...
Kindness 😊🎉
Why is it that for someone that anti trans videos keep appearing on my feed, but never any pro trans?
I consider myself outside of this debate, but I only see one side pushing an agenda here.
In my humble opinion, pushing the trans angle repeatedly undermines the guests speaking and some potentially interesting topics.
Is that a velvet jacket?
@16:18 he says robots or zombies, i would say also NPCs
Yes, it is. On both sides
Why are you talking about left hemisphere and right hemisphere as allegories for the political leanings? Is this meant to plant some sort of bias/seed on the audience? I can only hear the right is right, the left is delusional. If it only applies to the brain I'll be ok and interested but, the interviewer laid the "left wing" tight thoughts on his English literature uni circles. Have you crafted this interview to be understood as I did?
I love everytime when an ordinary person from crowd, questions in such depth, that's exactly the purpose of education. hats off, your education was worth. thnx
Women
What about them? How is that related to brain hemispheres?
This guy shouldn't have a platform st all
First they came for …..
and I said nothing .
If a person can only entertain one political point of view then they are not enlightened, I don't care who they are.
But if we are Saving the Planet .... .... :)
@@NorfolkSceptic hmmm...yes...I didn't consider that...more left brain for me then
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