How Crazy!

“The world is a sad place and the left brain likes to dominate the right brain. The right brain sees the whole thing. Making everything analytic in the Age of Enlightenment, shut down the right brain, in favour of dissecting, dividing, and conquering” – (paraphrased John Cleese in a podcast Rebel Wisdom)

At a dinner party recently, I brought up topics of the after life and soul. There was awkward silence. People someone gave a surface answer and shifted to talk of the Raptors. I suddenly realized (once again) that that things that are interesting and normal to me, are not interesting or normal to very many others. It’s crazy to most people who have not studied the humanities, philosophy, fine art, metaphysics and allowed for time in silence.

As someone with an immense amount of freedom to choose what I spend my time on, I have immersed myself into activitites surrounded by people who are tolerant, relaxed, and interested in what really matters. It makes me “weird and fabulous” as one person recently described me. I don’t really have a reference point for structured and social norms that others regularly make their choice around.

It’s about left and right brain dominance.

I feel furious when I hear about how left brain oriented people, systems and institutions minimize and dismiss the right brain oriented people, systems and ideology. When chaos happens in a system (it will not last if not balanced) often it is tried to be solved from habitual patterns. But often, the next logical step is to be illogical.

For example. If an organization has always brought in experts to solve complicated problems, the problems usually get more complex down the road. That’s because an order is often imposed rather than emerged from the problems already there.

The complex problems in a left brain oriented system are better approached with right brain oriented processes and persons. The least likely ones will help navigate through the critical times. When there are millions of dollars at stake it seems crazy to turn to societies rejected and outcast.

The ideal system would have both subjective and objective structures in place. Time to work, time to play. Time to give to sane and crazy time slots in your agenda.

I listened to a video this morning that really resonated with my thinking lately.

It might be crazy to