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Stegiel's avatar

Carl Sagan-"On the other hand, mere critical thinking, without creative and intuitive insights, without the search for new patterns, is sterile and doomed. To solve complex problems in changing circumstances requires the activity of both cerebral hemispheres: the path to the future lies through the corpus callosum. "

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Interesting. I'd usually considered paramoral systems such as critical theory to be 'feelz over realz', i.e. a triumph of emotionalism over rationality. Linguistic analysis of texts written over the last several decades tends to support this, as the rise of critical theory has been accompanied by a decline in rationalistic language and a growth in emotional language.

However, perhaps what we're seeing is a sort of compensatory displacement. Schizoid pseudophilosophies are produced in LH-dominant minds and become widely circulated in an LH-dominant population. The ideology is then enforced via emotionality masquerading as rationality - on the one hand, the emotions must be expressed somewhere; on the other, the LH is loathe to admit it can be emotionally driven, and tends to a high-contrast, simplistic emotionality (manic enthusiasm for its ideas, rage when its goals are thwarted).

Implicit in this piece is a connection to Desmet's mass formation. Schizoids producing paralogical ideologies that propose universal solutions; a hystericized, emotionally driven populace primed to latch fanatically on to these ideas; and in the midst of it all, the dark triad characteropaths opportunistically leveraging the ideologies and hysteria to extend and consolidate their control of the social order.

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