GREAT idea, /u/Nurarihyon_no_MAGA, for a thread, or focus, or whatever we're calling this.
The problem with society, here and in most places in the world, isn't just corruption or tyranny or Satanism or whatnot, but an unbalanced focus -- too much rational, logical, mechanical, nuance-blind, empathy-poor, context-poor left brain attention versus the more organic, spiritual, three-dimensional, connected, context-rich right-brain attention.
In life, we need both forms of attention, but balance is needed and the left hemisphere's form of attention must never become dominant in a culture (or one's life). Getting familiar with other cultures can help with that.
That's my take from reading Iain McGilchrist's work, and I recommend his writings for anyone interested in the concepts; a good, short introduction is Ways of Attending but there is a lot more from him including the 3,995-page The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World.
Edit: 1578 pages, not 3995.
Here's a link between American Indian culture and the pro-freedom attitude of both the American colonists and the governments (from local to federal) they created:
American colonists learned a great deal about freedom -- real freedom, not just tyranny with loose chains -- from Indian tribes. Despite the lack of "modern amenities" of the time, some colonists dropped out of Western Civilization to live with one of the tribes simply for the freedom that life in a tribe offered. (No, not all tribes were the same in this regard).
Imagine living in a society where, when the Chief wanted to start a war, you could tell him to fuck off right to his face, refuse to participate, and walk away unmolested. Yes, THAT kind of freedom. It started waking people up, just hearing about such things. Without our exposure to the free Indian tribes and some of their wise men who detailed theory and practice of freedom to interested Whites, we might never have produced the Declaration and freed ourselves from Britain with a Revolution.
It's an interesting subject. For more, see The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
GREAT idea, /u/Nurarihyon_no_MAGA, for a thread, or focus, or whatever we're calling this.
The problem with society, here and in most places in the world, isn't just corruption or tyranny or Satanism or whatnot, but an unbalanced focus -- too much rational, logical, mechanical, nuance-blind, empathy-poor, context-poor left brain attention versus the more organic, spiritual, three-dimensional, connected, context-rich right-brain attention.
In life, we need both forms of attention, but balance is needed and the left hemisphere's form of attention must never become dominant in a culture (or one's life). Getting familiar with other cultures can help with that.
That's my take from reading Iain McGilchrist's work, and I recommend his writings for anyone interested in the concepts; a good, short introduction is Ways of Attending but there is a lot more from him including the 3,995-page The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World. EDIT: The two-volume The Matter With Things is 1578 pages, not 3,995.
Here's a link between American Indian culture and the pro-freedom attitude of both the American colonists and the governments (from local to federal) they created:
American colonists learned a great deal about freedom -- real freedom, not just tyranny with loose chains -- from Indian tribes. Despite the lack of "modern amenities" of the time, some colonists dropped out of Western Civilization to live with one of the tribes simply for the freedom that life in a tribe offered. (No, not all tribes were the same in this regard).
Imagine living in a society where, when the Chief wanted to start a war, you could tell him to fuck off right to his face, refuse to participate, and walk away unmolested. Yes, THAT kind of freedom. It started waking people up, just hearing about such things. Without our exposure to the free Indian tribes and some of their wise men who detailed theory and practice of freedom to interested Whites, we might never have produced the Declaration and freed ourselves from Britain with a Revolution.
It's an interesting subject. For more, see The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
GREAT idea, /u/Nurarihyon_no_MAGA, for a thread, or focus, or whatever we're calling this.
The problem with society, here and in most places in the world, isn't just corruption or tyranny or Satanism or whatnot, but an unbalanced focus -- too much rational, logical, mechanical, nuance-blind, empathy-poor, context-poor left brain attention versus the more organic, spiritual, three-dimensional, connected, context-rich right-brain attention.
In life, we need both forms of attention, but balance is needed and the left hemisphere's form of attention must never become dominant in a culture (or one's life). Getting familiar with other cultures can help with that.
That's my take from reading Iain McGilchrist's work, and I recommend his writings for anyone interested in the concepts; a good, short introduction is Ways of Attending but there is a lot more from him including the 3,995-page The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World.
Here's a link between American Indian culture and the pro-freedom attitude of both the American colonists and the governments (from local to federal) they created:
American colonists learned a great deal about freedom -- real freedom, not just tyranny with loose chains -- from Indian tribes. Despite the lack of "modern amenities" of the time, some colonists dropped out of Western Civilization to live with one of the tribes simply for the freedom that life in a tribe offered. (No, not all tribes were the same in this regard).
Imagine living in a society where, when the Chief wanted to start a war, you could tell him to fuck off right to his face, refuse to participate, and walk away unmolested. Yes, THAT kind of freedom. It started waking people up, just hearing about such things. Without our exposure to the free Indian tribes and some of their wise men who detailed theory and practice of freedom to interested Whites, we might never have produced the Declaration and freed ourselves from Britain with a Revolution.
It's an interesting subject. For more, see The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity