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The Illusion of Control<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Dale Hollow Reservoir, Tennessee<\/div>\n

How often do you think of schizophrenia? Are you aware that most of Western society suffers from collective schizophrenia? I’ve mentioned\u00a0wetiko<\/b><\/i>\u00a0in this space often, because of the implications it has with modern civilization. For those unfamiliar with wetiko, please see\u00a0this article<\/a>. Most people completely ignore the\u00a0unsustainability of civilization<\/a>, brought about by\u00a0denial of reality<\/a>. It is this collective denial which also allows us to completely ignore the real world that we live in; especially the part which actually sustains us – the flora and fauna which provide the wonderful biodiversity that promulgates the ecosystem services we require to survive – our habitat. Without said habitat, we cannot continue as a species.<\/p>\n

These words written by Michael Asher have never been more true, quote:<\/p>\n

“What is schizophrenia? In colloquial use we take it to mean ‘split personality’, but in fact it’s a disorder of the brain’s right hemisphere – the part that sees the world as a web of connections. A serious problem with the right hemisphere leaves people stranded, dependent on the left hemisphere, which sees the world as a disjointed and meaningless collection of separate material objects. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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If that condition doesn’t ring a bell, it should. Since the 17th century, when the philosopher Descartes declared that mind was separate from matter, we have tended to see the world almost exclusively from a left hemisphere perspective. Schizophrenia, as it happens, is not recorded before the industrial era.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This hasn’t occurred by chance – it’s the way we are conditioned by family, school, media, arts, and so on. In fact, we’ve developed a whole philosophy based on the left hemisphere POV – it’s called materialism. <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Illusion of Control Dale Hollow Reservoir, Tennessee How often do you think of schizophrenia? Are you aware that most of Western society suffers from collective schizophrenia? I’ve mentioned\u00a0wetiko\u00a0in this space often, because of the implications it has with modern civilization. For those unfamiliar with wetiko, please see\u00a0this article. Most people completely ignore the\u00a0unsustainability of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,7],"tags":[31189,31180,14039,19321],"class_list":["post-64225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-erik-michaels","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology","tag-unsustainability","tag-western-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64228,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64225\/revisions\/64228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}