Another overview of right vs. left brain traits features a great example of how biased we are towards favoring left-dominance. On the left-brain side, you have words you’ve been taught to trust like “rational” “logical” and “objective.” Whereas the first characteristic described for right-brained is “random.” I mean, random? Fucking… hello? That’s the most retarded thing I’ve ever heard. Almost all these brain hemisphere descriptions are skewed in this direction, because the left-brain is associated with verbal communication, and the right-brain nonverbal. So the left-brain automatically paints the right-brain as some kind of unfathomable weird purveyor of bullshit and randomness that you can’t trust (Conspiracy theory, anyone?). Which couldn’t be further from the truth, in my opinion. What the right brain is actually good at that the left brain can’t even touch would be better termed “connectivity.”

It goes well beyond connectivity though. An interesting article about the bicameral mind talks about what happens when patients being treated for certain conditions have their corpus callosum severed. This is the area of tissue which connects the two halves of the brain, and allows them to communicate. In case you don’t know, the left brain controls the right side of the body, and the right brain controls the left hand side. Studies have revealed:

With their communications link severed, each side of the patient’s brain was functioning independently. Although this did not prevent his ability to walk, talk and eat, some unexpected findings were encountered in some of the higher brain functions when each side was examined independently of the other.

The right hand and eye could name an object, such as a pencil, but the patient could not explain what it was used for. When shown to the left hand and eye, the patient could explain and demonstrate its use, but could not name it.

In other words, all the left brain does in this example is stores the name of something. If you want to know what it really is or does, you have to go to our old denigrated friend, the right-brain.

Imagine, for a moment, what happens when you have a society full of people who are taught not to trust their right brain functions because they “random” and they are not exercised or developed hardly at all in public education. Instead, we focus on the left-brain system of naming, as described in the experiment above. What you end up with is a person whose brain development is stunted, and easily controlled. Philip K. Dick has a great quote about exactly this phenomenon:

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”

Don’t believe me? Just look at the news. Look at wars of conquest which are called by their opposites: liberation. Look at political parties which are supposed to be opposites but which stand for exactly the same things. Look at anything having to do with public relations (perception management) and advertising. Things become their opposites. Names get switched around, because nobody can access their right-brain centers enough to actually remember what any of this shit used to really stand for or mean at all.