Pragmatic and Romantic
I sense that the personality of each of us is determined by the inherited biological characteristics of the neural matrix of our brain. This essentially dominates whatever the character of the living dialogue is for individuals driven by the content of the right and left hemisphere of the brain matrix that is inherited from one’s parents and their ancestors.
This mixing of each individual’s neural interactions constitutes society, which is the task and means of a collective dialogue to function together for mutual survival.
At a previous time, only 10 thousand years back, the timeline of survival was almost day to day, certainly season to season and probably week to week. This was because there was little or no surplus of provision.
Large groups, called civilizations, changed the circumstance of provision in order to meet the needs of a totally new quantium dialogue of population numbers.
A primitive family was the circumstance of the process and dimension of provision. As populations grew into the tribe, clan, village, and so on until today’s dimension of human mega population is approaching the level of 10 billion, thus demanding a completely new and different social arrangement. Increasingly we are asking some serious questions regarding our society and whether we will be able to cope and provide for all its members.
The character of the neural matrix may not be equipped to meet this demand without incorporating the skill and development of right/left brain integration, especially in leaders and leadership.
What I am saying is that the tendency to polarize into violent quarrels between a contrived “Us” and ‘Them” can only destroy any functional social interaction on which our survival depends.
What lay at the root of dysfunctional polarity is the lack of education, training, and the understanding of right/left brain functioning and the necessary integration and use of each, i.e. pragmatic vs romantic, function vs dream.
The acceptance and distinction of the psycho-mental functioning of the human mind must be nourished, developed, and kept clear of cultural distortion and reversion, and applying each as it is appropriate and needed. We don’t want the dream to drive the bus, but the dream can help contribute to decisions about where we go.
To come back to healthy basic neural functioning we need to develop this right/left awareness in all balanced psyches.
This brings up the nightmare of truth in the observation of the high percentage of mental disorders and deficits in the overall human population. This is mostly due to the misguided, organic, sexual forces that breed without any measure of the outcome, or consideration of the impact on the collective social functioning and the capacity to carry the load of nonfunctional brains. This is the most challenging consideration: having the greatest impact on how we use the energies of life we obtain for everyone’s survival that are spent and consumed by so many who are dysfunctional and incompetent. This is not something anyone wants to think about too much.
This development and management of the resources of what is available to all of humanity is key to how to drive the bus. But those with pathological defects seem somehow to dominate the image or dream the majority hold in their convictions. Their convictions are the result of belief based teachings and their inability to distinguish between right brain convictions and using the left brain to measure its validity.
This has preceded the present human condition where we now discover much more about the relationship of psychological and neural functioning. In other words, evolution is always preceded by ignorance and fatality of the ’wrong’ response.
New knowledge and interaction then forces those captured in older stages of evolution that have not, and perhaps cannot, alter their thinking.
A further difficulty is the leaders who clearly understand that their powers and beliefs are threatened and rally their primitive neural supporters in an organic polarization of their survival.
Meanwhile, the larger order of challenges to social interdependence are compelled to meet this primitive pathology with resources and images of defense and resistance. Thus deadlocking the ability to drive the bus, i.e. engage rational functioning on a conscious course of regulating neural integration and balance necessary for our survival.
Right brain belief cannot drive the bus. Left brain doesn’t know where to go without a dream. Pragmatic without the romantic, romantic without the pragmatic.
This is the basis of a functional living dialogue whose health depends on a functional foundation; the development and awareness of the necessity of each in order to maintain the essential balance of thinking and acting in survival and meaning.
What is available in current studies and concepts of left /right brain function?
We know some of the pathologies of its imbalance, not so much left brain, unless it is detached cruelty. We know much less about its positive benefits.
We know a lot about right brain pathologies such as bipolarization and extreme narcissism, but we also need to know about the creative process of using the dreaming to awaken consciousness in its functioning in manifestation. But do we include it, think of it as a core foundation in teaching and public learning, i.e. to be self aware of one’s own neural character and process? Mental health is not just avoiding reality.
There is much available in the public-knowledge bank that is altogether too much for my limited brain. But we do have access to many of the new core concepts and data of overall principles awakening in neural science, just by searching. God Bless Google!