Getting "swept away"

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[–]Robin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

To me this rings some bells with the difference between "left-brain" (logical, limited) thinking and "right-brain" (bigger picture, more cosmic) thinking. I use those labels less for their anatomical precision (since almost everything we do does involve both hemispheres to some extent) than to identify two polar opposites. I tried (and mostly failed) to elucidate on this towards the end of Unwelcome Guests # 750. Got swept away by reviewing the historical evidence of The Supranationa1 Deep State, and didn't spend long enough on the weakness of the human mind which allows such a group to hide in plain sight. Rather than the unwieldy 750, http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/537 or http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/652 are a better way into brain (mal-)functioning and its implications for society and the self...

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for sharing. Interesting to compare the two types of thinking like this. I would almost say it really boils down to a different way to divide the brain, the cortex (logical clear thinking) vs the limbic system (emotional thinking). People let their limbic system (also called the "lizard brain" because this structure is also in reptiles while the cortex is only in mammals) take over their mind. It's deeply rooted both behaviorally and evolutionarily, which is why its mental pull is so hard to escape without a high amount of diligence

[–]Robin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It takes a special kind of "sapiens" to confuse black with white. I think the topic is an important one, which is why I tried to focus #750 on it. A related dichotomy is between acting according to ones feelings and sense data as opposed to acting according to abstract mental models including ideas such as "patriotic duty" and "profit/loss"...