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jazminew38@gmail.com's avatar

I remember when doing a psychotherapy and Counseling course, reading Gustave Le Bon. He said " The more educated people are, the more vulnerable they are for Mass Formation". The West has fallen for their government narrative to inject everyone with the poison while we in Africa, never believed our corrupt governments and never fell for one medicine or one injection in this case for ALL!

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Lizzy Beta's avatar

This line of thinking, that our rational minds can never grasp the truth, is resonant with Iain McGilchrist's work on the hemispheric differences and how each side of the brain looks at the world. The left brain, the brain of language (not all language, the left brain can't do metaphor) is one of focussed attention, manipulation, decontextualizing, is disembodied, and basically, not in touch with reality, because it does not see the "whole." The left brain mistakes the map for the terrain, so to speak. Whereas the right brain pays attention to the whole, as a continuous, ever changing 'flow'.

The left brain comes up with systems, narratives, ideologies. And, without the right brain, we become trapped in them, believing in them more so than reality. That is our problem these days.

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