Hit like, subscribe - and comment below (this is a bloody good episode, Iain is amazing)
@ellie6986 ай бұрын
I'm looking forward to this. I love this new channel of yours Andrew. And I'm telling people about it 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@ellie6985 ай бұрын
Please interview wonderful heretics Tom MacDonald, the independent rap artist and, and this is BIG.... Jim Carrey
@jodea20175 ай бұрын
Lots of love from Israel, Andy❤
@scarba5 ай бұрын
Wondering why this wasn’t on your podcast first? I always listen there first then come here
@esKeptiko5 ай бұрын
Excellent! Also, looooooove the jacket AG
@annieodowd60665 ай бұрын
I’m a teacher of English literature. Sadly, the Humanities are reduced to a sad and very dull post modern lens of deconstruction. All is seen a-historically and without contextual nuance. 😢
@chasingthesun-bi6cx5 ай бұрын
I did a postmodernism module at uni and failed miserably because I thought it was all complete bollocks and all of my essays and lecture contributions reflected that.
@Kak2R_5 ай бұрын
@@chasingthesun-bi6cx a great badge of honour you have there!
@Dehmigaahd5 ай бұрын
It’s far easier to deconstruct than to construct. What took aeons to build and refine can be reduced to ashes, as if we were never here. If you hear tribalistic ideas, know that they will resolve in warfare and ultimate regression to our native and most primitive societal state.
@tomgreene18435 ай бұрын
A sad tale indeed ....look at music !
@tamsinthai5 ай бұрын
Bit like classic books with 'a reader' printed on the front. 'Hmm. how can we dumb them down even more'? Despicable.
@shirleydanby41235 ай бұрын
Sometimes i just think im going mad. Am i just in my 40's becoming more cynical and finding change hard. Or am i actually witnessing, the decline of our society and communities. Who hasnt realised theyre laughing less and quicker to anger. Its quite distressing and its a constant battle to reflect and try in staying true to ourselves and our principles.
@dandee63315 ай бұрын
You are being water boarded by Post Modern Marxist ideas....we all are. You are not going mad it's a feature of the simulation dubbed the Politics of Pardoy.
@HarryBuxley5 ай бұрын
I think many people feel the same way, being brought up liberal and would have always more or less supported radical "stick it to man"/"overthrow the status quo" type activities, and still do actually, in many aspects, it's quite jarring to then be placed on the other side where you are defending the status quo or traditional views. I don't think your going mad.
@jimb90635 ай бұрын
Yes indeed, far less patience seemingly, which leads to quicker irritation.
@janettedewar66175 ай бұрын
'The decline of the brain.' Woke is making worm-holes in our brain. Soon will come the mark of the Beast because it will be the next norm.
@m.p.70755 ай бұрын
I always think of my grandmother. She died at 98 and in her last few years she said that she felt that she had lived too long because of how the world had changed. How come I feel exactly the same in my mid 40's?? It's an extremely depressing situation when you can remember how things seemed to look in the 90's. Maybe I was just young and naive.
@arleneevans63425 ай бұрын
I'm in my 60's and I look out at my community and think "has the world gone mad or me". Nothing makes sense to me anymore. There is no laughter on the streets anymore. That's what I miss most of the 60's & 70's women would laugh over garden wall or standing in circles on the street gossiping, children running and laughing up and down the streets. Laughter after pubs close and that really loud sch.
@juliesheard21225 ай бұрын
I agree. At 69 I feel alienated even from my children.
@antidepressant115 ай бұрын
So an Israeli, a Palestinian and Joe Biden walk into a bar ...
@brianna0945 ай бұрын
@@juliesheard2122I'm 30 and I don't speak to anyone in my family. The family system is broken by design and it's affected everyone. I just keep laughing 😊
@robertandrews65555 ай бұрын
The last thing the glob a lis t cabal want is a sense of "community" where people talk to each other.
@jamieshannon90195 ай бұрын
It's not you buddy, it's definitely, them
@allthefunofthefair5 ай бұрын
Iain has an incredible mind - he’s a true polymath - and yet remains humble. An extraordinary person.
@stephenphillips49844 ай бұрын
But his attempt to interpret wokism as the conflict between the left and right hemispheres is plain wrong. Academics tend to explain new phenomena in terms of their own disciplines and McGilchrist is no exception to this tendency. He is trying to fit a complex social phenomena to brain activity. So simplistic!
@kinglear59523 ай бұрын
I agree. He is amazing
@dazingamaine43182 ай бұрын
@@stephenphillips4984 neutral person here. i hate the woke agenda being pushed as its brainwashing. i also hate academics who don't realize science has been co opted for centuries to push certain views. academics who rely solely on left brain activity shouldnt be talking. its all about power. if your human and neither right or left we are family. everyone else can go die for your team. in my view its: extremely horny people vs extremely racist people. or you can stay neutral with me. have a nice day. namaste
@user-so3kx5sv8r5 ай бұрын
I applaud the way Andrew is managing his choice of guests and the deceptively simple approach he takes to draw them out. Am loving this podcast
@oo7tease5 ай бұрын
Yeeeesss spot on, He goes in like a wide eyed child, expecting to learn something , he is very clever classy young man
@elioxman84965 ай бұрын
The two most important things people are not taught today are humility and kindness.
@ph80774 ай бұрын
The woke destroy cancel careers & people's lives with customary self-proclaimed humility & kindness.
@kbeetles2 ай бұрын
No, because the aim is to dehumanise humanity, to fit into a digitalised, globalistic world.
@aliciameeks5 ай бұрын
“Things which speak to us intuitively, speaks to us profoundly.” -Iain McGilchrist 🙌🏻 Beautifully said!
@triggered5775 ай бұрын
"The less you know, the more you think you know" ...
@Joanna74285 ай бұрын
Isnt that the truth!!
@GordonPavilion5 ай бұрын
Classic Dunning Kruger syndrome
@-ucanthandledatruth01-125 ай бұрын
Narcissism and delusion are this social paradigms true currency
@ohnoitisnt5 ай бұрын
And all the nerds wont ever give a straight answer because its always 'complex'!
@Neuren1235 ай бұрын
You do not know what you do not know.
@christinestone3915 ай бұрын
My "brain didn't turn me woke". My brain did however recoil at the loss of logic and reason.
@MissBeeeBeee5 ай бұрын
💯🎯Same here. Loss of logic, reason, and the possibility of rational dialogue.
@AndyJarman5 ай бұрын
And variety of intellect.
@jeanalice47325 ай бұрын
For a minute there i thought I was the only one losing my wits .
@tchocky715 ай бұрын
I second all of the above and applaud you for articulating it all.
@techpriest69625 ай бұрын
Same, I'm a very Logic Oriented person. Which is why I am so disgusted with the ideology.
@jerrymoore8385 ай бұрын
My brain thirsts for these sorts of conversations. Thank you
@janillingsworth74785 ай бұрын
Oh my goodness I am so relieved. Recently I have been so aghast and bewildered by things such as the gender ideology, the banning of books like Enid Blyton's Noddy books, being told I can't make jokes or laugh at the juxtaposition of incongruencies. I suddenly thought that as a retired woman of 75 I had lost touch with reality in society. Suddenly I had sleepily stumbled into a whole new world of rules, angry people, of being wrong and of everyone having to be the same! I noticed too that people are inclined to believe in and discus in dichotomies which is more of a left brain mode, right and wrong black and white, left and right, winning and losing. I have been saying to my grandchildren don't worry about what you know as it relatively unimportant compared to what you don't know. Embrace your not knowing, be glad you have become aware of your not knowing and step happily forth, like the fool in the tarot on a journey into the unknown. This is fun and this is exciting. As a child there was a joke we thought was hilariously funny. You pulled your eyes down at the corners saying, Willy's mother was chinese and then pulling your eyes up at the corner saying Willy's father was Japanese. Then one eye pulled down, the other eye pulled up saying "poor Willy!. We never thought there was anything wrong with Asian eyes just that they were different and what was funny was how our faces looked when we tried to make our eyes look Asian. Nowadays this would be deemed racist. In the early 50s I was given a child's story about pirates. It was called, "Pieces of Eight". I never read past the first few pages because the "n" word was frequently used. I recently found this book and was somewhat aghast at how frequently the n word was used as common palance. My Dad had taught me that the" n" word was derogatory and the correct word to use was negro. He also told me that negro was a Spanish word meaning black. He told me that there were many derogatory words for races like hun, chink, abo, hori (for Maori people) and that we were not to use them. I was very interested in this phenomena especially when Howard Morrison (a Maori singer) had a funny song called Mori the hori. So I learnt there are many nuances. He was teaching me about good manners and acceptance of difference. This sudden change in language, of what is correct to use or incorrect to use does sometimes bring up in me a sadness of loss and often defiance. I think changing the words in an author's book is outrageously arrogant and offensive. The missionaries did a similiar thing by cutting of the genital on Maori carvings which are sacred ancestors. My father complained that homosexuals had stolen a wonderful, joyous word and spoilt one of his favourite poems, The Piper, by Seamus O'Sullivan.; "and all the world went gay , went gay, for half an hour in the streets today." I am an artist and when people have asked me what is the meaning of a piece of work I say what do you think and feel when you look at it. Because my art is an expression of me in process. Whatever the viewer thinks, feels or percieves about my painting is true. It is their meaning that is relevant. I also love the notion that our thoughts and understandings are not fixed. Our truth changes. My former husband was bewildered by my constant changing of my ideas. He would say, "but last week you said the opposite to what you are now saying". To which I would reply jokingly, "last week I lied." Meaning is always changing because it arises out of process, out of experiencing and discovering the new from the journey into the unknown. I think we are becoming subjected to bullying into stagnant, judgemental, and boring lives. This was a brilliant interview Andrew. Arohanui from me in Aotearoa New Zealand .
@TheFiddle1015 ай бұрын
A decade younger than you, I have gone through the same thought processes. We were taught that political correctness was a good thing, and it is, but the pendulum has swung so far the other way that we are all becoming confused and frankly worried about what we can say. For women, saying that there are only 2 sexes, can have serious consequences as a fair number of them have lost their jobs for saying this.
@EllaGreenn5 ай бұрын
I love your comment!
@janillingsworth74785 ай бұрын
@@EllaGreenn thank you so much.
@janillingsworth74785 ай бұрын
@infiniteshoeblack thank you. We do need to keep being authentic and not bow down to idiotic fad ideologies.
@janillingsworth74785 ай бұрын
@@TheFiddle101 It is outrageous that you can lose your job because you say a scientific fact. Having some common sense and pragmatism would be good. The fortunate thing about being old is we are not having to fear the job loss blackmail.
@DerekBoyes5 ай бұрын
I've watched stacks of McGilchrist videos and I am just 100 pages off finishing his magnum opus - The Matter With Things. He is always fascinating to listen to and I'm often in awe by his words. This interview was one of the most enjoyable, he comes across much more relaxed and humorous, which I think is also testament to Andrew's ability to make his guests feel so welcome. Thank you to both of you! Now I really must go to bed - it's 1:42am and I have a ticket to see Dune part 2 at 11:40 tomorrow morning! :)
@EllaGreenn5 ай бұрын
Oh, I could listen to this man for hours or days. Are those videos on YT or did you buy them?
@DerekBoyes5 ай бұрын
@@EllaGreenn They are on KZbin and on his website :)
@equinnox705 ай бұрын
Enjoy Dune 2!!! I saw it last night and it was magnificent!
@nickleby775 ай бұрын
You sound like we could be friends. Not enough people reading good books and watching good movies in the world today.
@rayne67375 ай бұрын
@@nickleby77Well the movies today aren’t worth watching for the large majority so you must be talking about the older movies.🍿
@JamchesterBoozle5 ай бұрын
Iain McGilchrist is such an impressive bloke, very eloquent and good thats he's so intellectual but also with a good sense of humour!
@mimig65115 ай бұрын
He is a delight
@isaklytting57955 ай бұрын
I've listened for 12 minutes, and have already found myself saying, "that is SO true!" about ten times! I really appreciate his perspective and his insights. I feel they make a lot of sense, and are very a pro pos to the place we currently find ourselves.
@ellie3695 ай бұрын
As a boring accountant myself, I feel the need to protest at the derogatory remarks of your, otherwise, magnificent guest, Dr McGilchrist. I am now traumatised and intend to seek psychiatric help. I am ONLY JOKING of-course and agree with the comment about British irony and humour being lost on some (but not all) Americans
@tbwatch885 ай бұрын
tally ho!
@mariekatherine52383 ай бұрын
New Yorkers get it!
@ellie3693 ай бұрын
@@mariekatherine5238 😄😍
@KayesseeКүн бұрын
The satire of the British is some of the best dry comedy ever.
@gulli725 ай бұрын
"We used to say: 'They may take everything from us, but never our humor.' And it happened so." -- Hagen Rether
@Solar.Geoengineering.Advocate5 ай бұрын
i think people are less full of humour these days because we live in pretty awful and frightening times. not very conducive to humour. there was some starvation experiment done during the second world war or shortly after i think. to test what insufficient food does to people. and one of the people involved afterwards mentioned how after the test when he was able to eat properly again, he knew he was recovering when his sense of humour returned.
@Namelbmert4 ай бұрын
@@Solar.Geoengineering.Advocate Aha! This is why Tofuist leftists are nuts! You are what you eat!
@whitemason3 ай бұрын
@@Solar.Geoengineering.Advocate I wonder if gallows humor serves a purpose then, to force the individual out of a state of constant distress and back into health even when they absolutely should be crushingly distressed. Likewise, if someone in a squad loses their humor, that'd be a sign he's about to hurt himself to others.
@voices_vary5 ай бұрын
What a fascinating guest. Thank you for hosting him.
@sarasamson59225 ай бұрын
Thank you for another great Heretics interview. My experience with 'right brain / left brain' began in the early '90s, when my dominant right hand became injured at work a week before beginning a college drawing class I didn't want to cancel. My project became a series of dual drawings, one with each hand. I decided I couldn't earn a living as an artist, so for 20+ years have been working (on computers) in biotech operations. Increasingly anxiety-ridden, I decided to start drawing again, with the left hand only, in 2017. I wanted to 'develop new neural pathways'. I later resumed painting, only the left hand, through the Covid years. It has made a difference in how I think, perceive my surroundings and problem solve. Now I draw and paint with both hands on the same pictures. However, I've become increasingly indifferent to technology and am exploring more creative, non-technical options.
@dorasneddon7745 ай бұрын
This is very interesting and enlightening. Thank you for describing your experience - food for thought and creative, right-brain action!
@wpridgen48535 ай бұрын
Hey there! I too use both hands, born left hand dominant for fine motor skills and right hand dominant for athletics, I started training both hands in the opposing discipline about a decade ago as a form of self exploration.. I concur, there is definitely a mental shift. Good to know I'm not the only ambi out here..lol
@voices_vary5 ай бұрын
Learning to play a musical instrument--especially piano--will very much help people think independently. It wires the brain differently.
@sanniepstein48355 ай бұрын
The public statements of musicians don't necessarily confirm that.
@garybranch8075 ай бұрын
You are right, but only if attend to music in a certain way. Music crosses both hemispheres, it complex to comment here, but is what I found as a pianist that when I discovered the work of Iain McGilchrist everything made sense, but it was because I was attending to music and the piano in a certain way. Other pianists would not agree, they may attend in a different way to the piano and music. the point is there is no one way or right way, just authentic and honest in discovery.
@karenleemallonee6844 ай бұрын
Very interesting! 🤔
@ascgazz4 ай бұрын
“Differently” isn’t “better”. Yours, an autistic, AdHd, ex-musician.
@Dave54003 ай бұрын
I like the sentiment, but respectfully disagree on technical grounds if I understand correctly where your comment is coming from. The two hands play different things on the piano, true, but they need to play as one in order to be a competent musician. Melody in one hand intertwines with the harmony of the other, even in something as musically complex as a four part Bach fugue. Tempo and rhythm in each must also match, as must the dynamics in order for the music to make sense.
@MissBeeeBeee5 ай бұрын
Excellent interview, Andrew!! Please bring him back. ✌️ As Peter Boghossian said: “We are living in uniquely stupid times.”
@tomgreene18435 ай бұрын
Well said!
@vivienneb61995 ай бұрын
Bog is uniquely stupid
@zoltanrudolf5 ай бұрын
The English speaking countries are in so much trouble it is terrifying.
@damonmelendez8565 ай бұрын
Maybe the reason they don’t fight/ preserve their culture is because they don’t value it? As natives, maybe their culture is trash, who am I to judge. You can’t respect someone if they don’t respect themselves. They are pathetic, really, imo.
@judithcressey16825 ай бұрын
It's the effects of 'the long march through the institutions'. 'Live not by Lies' Aleksandr Solzenhitsyn.
@Jungleangie5 ай бұрын
Not just the English speaking ones. The entire western world is affected, especially the German speaking countries as well.
@jeanalice47325 ай бұрын
It's basically a grand White genocide. Wonder who's behind it and why?
@dai197215 ай бұрын
arab speaking countrys are doomed then .....cos they wont fix their selfs... europe has democracy.
@Pneumanon5 ай бұрын
"People who have no functioning right hemisphere tend to see people as either robots or zombies". That was super interesting considering the preponderance of robot and zombie related media over the last decade (and beyond), and how repetitive our mainstream fiction landscape has become.
@user-dn7iq6li9u5 ай бұрын
20:26 That's a very good point - I found a lot of times that in my university days (I was a humanities student) tutors would just shoot down students' interpretations/conclusions, with a "that's wrong" and then either move on, or come out with something that was not obviously any more valid, rather than asking how they came to that conclusion, which would have been more useful for all concerned, regardless of who was right or wrong.
@NPC-305 ай бұрын
I honestly blame social media the most. Facebook used to have only likes, youtube used to have ratings. Now it's either like or dislike, thumbs up or down etc. People are being conditioned to think black or white.
@aldebaranredstar5 ай бұрын
I know there’s irony here in that I gave you a like to your comment about likes. 😂Yes, the up or down vote reminds me of the Colosseum.
@amaryllisequistra4 ай бұрын
Agreed, but another way to say it is, people are conditioning themselves with their choice of media… choose different inputs to get different outputs (to use the language of the machine)
@patrickbarrett56505 ай бұрын
When we had industry and could see the results of our labour we were tired but had something to show for our efforts. Now, the only results we can experience are the effects we can generate in others. Hence we generate hatred, jealousy and suspicion to prove that we can have some effect on the world.
@MH3GL5 ай бұрын
Very insightful. Never thought of it this way before ... Thanks. 👍
@martinliehs25135 ай бұрын
That is an observation that deserves some attention. It appears to me that the whole "woke" enterprise resides in big institutions and corporate headquarters. On the other hand, if one deals with trades people, farmers or truck drivers that are isolated from bureaucracy, there is a completely different mindset.
@ruthlewis6735 ай бұрын
Thanks for that, deeply insightful.
@drwhatson5 ай бұрын
@@martinliehs2513The Woke enterprise is encouraged by financial incentives, notably by the WEF Corporate Equity Index.
@jenniferprice9505 ай бұрын
I could listen to the two of you chat all day. Wonderful Andrew 😊
@theBadger19865 ай бұрын
What a wonderfully insightful and witty interview! I really enjoyed your guest, what a truly wonderful man. If only we had more of these in charge of the world right now...what a beautiful and truly loving place it would be. Thanks Andrew!
@MackerelCat5 ай бұрын
One of the best episodes yet Andrew. Great guest. Really good chat.
@sovereignbrehon6 ай бұрын
@Andrewgoldheretics I am so thrilled you're interviewing Iain. He is magnificent!
@shelleyscloud36515 ай бұрын
That’s the perfect word for him - MAGNIFICENT!!! (& bloody lovely with it!!)
@Lilbit-mr3lq5 ай бұрын
Wonderful chap. I miss listening to people like him.
@EllaGreenn5 ай бұрын
Absolutely!! This was one of the best interviews I've heard in a long time.
@tgcole43725 ай бұрын
OMG this conversation made me feel so sane!! Thank-you Ian and Andrew xxx🥰
@mesmerandmarie5 ай бұрын
Thank you, thank you, thank you! What a pleasure to be in this company for an hour or so.....if you don't mind me saying, I have felt so lonely in the way I perceive the world the last few years and listening to Dr McGilchrist has been such a pleasure...planning on a PhD in fine art in the next couple of years and have been thinking 'not to' due to being highly an intuitive....but this gives me 'fire' again!!!! Much appreciated!
@ChrisOgunlowo5 ай бұрын
Just beautiful. Thanks for hosting Iain. Aside his incredible and unquestionable scholarly work, I often hold him in the same esteem as biblical prophets warning people about an impending apocalypse. And he speaks and writes with such lucidity and grace that you don’t want him to stop talking or writing. Great conversation. 👍🏽
@Alicja2375 ай бұрын
Dr Iain McGilchrist is my favourite person to listen to. Great interview, thank you!
@EsseQuamViderity5 ай бұрын
We are making ourselves ADHD with our phones
@Parmesito5 ай бұрын
Yes!!!
@mattpoynton32855 ай бұрын
Yes, I absolutely agree.
@tamidawn83835 ай бұрын
Spot on!
@jittmet77665 ай бұрын
And youtube commercials!
@mimig65115 ай бұрын
We do seem to pathologise everything: a bit nervous about going to a party: social anxiety, feeling sad about an event: major depression and then medicate everyone. Years ago we didn;t want labels and denied them,,,now we want a label and demand labels. Anxiety depression and other mental health concerns are so debilitating and more than feeling a bit sad or bluesy. I am out of my depth in figuring out the world at this stage. So interesting to listen to academics and intellectuals talk about these things.
@bobdillaber11955 ай бұрын
Yet another wonderful and illuminating conversation. So privileged to be able to see and hear this. Thank you!
@karenhartman97745 ай бұрын
My anthropology linguistics professor said, “A problem that can’t be solved in one language can often be solved in another.” If only everyone could get the significance of that fact. We need our differences!
@stevenmeldrum1944Ай бұрын
Wow. Tell me more?
@alspringham19 күн бұрын
Profound,essential,lifesaving.well done.
@Narsufin6 ай бұрын
Looking forward to this. Everyone should hear and read Dr McGilchrist.
@carolspencer69155 ай бұрын
Good afternoon Andrew and Iain Tears and smiles indeed. Truly grateful for all of this, in short. Thankyou. 💜
@robertwhiteley-yv1sy5 ай бұрын
Ian has changed my life so much. His realisation about how the hemispheres interact with reality throws so much light on the human experience that it’s probably one of if not the greatest discovery none to mankind.
@cinford5 ай бұрын
1st time hearing of this delightful, pleasant man, thx Andrew! How lucky his students must be to hear him speak...wow! So refreshing to hear such a clever person explain things so joyfully without any arrogance 😊 he seemed to really enjoy your company too Andrew!
@commonwunder5 ай бұрын
The main issue with the West, unlike most other cultures... is the prevalent mindset, that despises tradition. The zeitgeist is 'constant change' for constant changes sake. Other cultures understand tradition is an antidote to anxiety. If mixed with religion, the anxiety level is diminished even further. Humans have usually desired all kinds of traditions as innate coping mechanisms. Not many Westerners would have considered the idea possible seventy years ago, that religion in the West would plummet as drastically as it has. With it, a lot of certitude gone ...and much new anxiety shouldered. Even small changes in a fixed, traditional society, have widespread repercussions. Societies are finely balanced entities. Modern Westerners particularly, can't grasp the magnitude of this reality. The rate of change in the last seventy years of Western history, is too expansive for most historians to even grapple with. This is because... there is no actual societal advancement. If anything, Western society has been stagnant for the last seventy years. A consent conveyor-belt of new consumables to buy, is not a true substitute for real social change and advancement. One effect of this constant, urgent need to demolish all tradition. Is the elderly no longer feel welcome in their own society. Throughout most of human history, the elderly were venerated. For their wisdom and experience. The West has turned this trend on its head. That's why a societal shift like 'woke' is so upsetting for the 'not so young'. or those with a more conservative, traditional outlook. It is a 'trite' trend, it is social advancement 'lite'. It is change for changes sake. Those that adhere or even cling to traditional values are deeply despised. This is the true virus that has captured the West... a sort of decadent need, for the excitement of anything... as long as it is new. A complete boredom and utter hatred of anything traditional and with it, its anti-anxiety producing properties.
@cumbriatreesurgeons89435 ай бұрын
Wow, that's impressive . You do know that you are richer in real terms than Gates or Soros - you have wisdom, they have to make do with excess of money. Mind you, a more equitable re-distribution of both commodities would be useful.....
@aldebaranredstar5 ай бұрын
You’re making an excellent point about the hatred of tradition or the turning away from tradition in our western culture. However, I disagree that western society has been stagnant for 70 years. For me personally the most important thing has been the introduction of concepts from the Indian tradition-for example, the acceptance of yoga, meditation and other facets of Eastern thought and traditions. Sanskrit is an Indo European language, and we are related to that tradition. In my view, the Iliad and the Odyssey are different facets of the same story told in the Indian epic the Mahabharata. There are many similarities between these epics even though one is considered western and therefore despised, and the other is considered non-western, and therefore more accepted.
@lena-Ramone5 ай бұрын
I can tell you arent generation Z or woke 😂 phew 😂 . Id love to add more points but its bed time now ❤
Thank you for bringing the wisdom of the wonderful Ian McGilchrist to your channel. The master and his Emissary is a masterpiece and ought to be in school curriculums!
@tchocky715 ай бұрын
What a fine and beautiful, edifying interview! Congratulations, Andrew Gold! This one is priceless, as your Heretics work tends to be! I didn't even know Mr McGilchrist's work before. Now I'm a fan. The interview is of the calibre that makes me want to transcribe the entirety so I can remember all the gems scattered throughout.
@deejay8ch5 ай бұрын
Good stuff. The cutting edge of neuroscience multiplied by biologically informed, balanced insights related to philosophy, sociology and even theology. So good. Many thanks.
@V_Hayden72 ай бұрын
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes"! Great conversation! Thanks!
@farinshore8900Ай бұрын
That was fun ! Thanks for the great conversation.
@Daz62_065 ай бұрын
Excellent interviewing skills Andrew, you have made such progress.
@OnTheFlipSide5 ай бұрын
Once again Andrew you nailed it, so proud to witness your progress. I never heard of Iain McGilchrist before today, and I LOVE HIM!!!!
@Biggus635 ай бұрын
This is the first time I've come across Mr McGilchrist, and what a pleasure it was. Delightful fellow!
@amss22825 ай бұрын
Thanks enjoyed the interview undertaken with much decorum and respect 😊
@desd19325 ай бұрын
I think im not the only one when i say this but when texting became a thing way before social media. I found texting to be frustrating as texts can be misunderstood words get taken out of context. Sometimes it could start a small arguement.
@AndyJarman5 ай бұрын
Lol.
@dorasneddon7745 ай бұрын
Predictive text has become more and more nonsensical and driven by stereotype, I've noticed. The smarter the smart phone, the dumber the predictive text becomes!
@dorasneddon7745 ай бұрын
@infiniteshoeblack it always seems that way to me... And most people I know! 😁
@dhammaboy12035 ай бұрын
Great choice of guests AG! McGilchrist's The Master & his Emissary is exceptional!
@dancuk19755 ай бұрын
Quite possibly the most fascinating discussion I've heard in a long time.
@silakompromisu5 ай бұрын
This is the first time I've seen an interview with Dr. McGilchrist, having admired his theory of the hemispheres and their switching dominance since 2019. So good to finally hear him speak!
@thegreathadoken68085 ай бұрын
Maybe you could equate this to a boxing analogy, where most fighters fight with the left hand forward right hand back, the right hand for these fighters is the power hand, the knockout hand, but the left hand, presumably controlled by the right brain hemisphere, is the jabbing hand, the setup hand, the one that finds the openings for the power hand to follow through.
@rossduncan44315 ай бұрын
Andrew, I agree with you and would say this is one of your best interviews, if not the best! Thank you. Iain is a wonderfully articulate, intelligent and interesting man. Please line up a second, third, fourth interview 👍
@M123OCT5 ай бұрын
The depressing irony of such a wonderful conversation is that those who really need to listen to it never will.
@PH63-t6tАй бұрын
Agree
@garymelnyk79105 ай бұрын
“One knows at last what to think about”. Wallace Stevens. The most profound observation. Meaning……..because there is always more thinking to be done, we can never know what to think about!
@happinesscoding5 ай бұрын
Here is to beautiful, balanced conversations. Thank you!
@samrowbotham89145 ай бұрын
It feels like I went to bed one night and woke up the next day in a mad parallel universe. BTW I am friends with Iain over on FB he is a brilliant thinker we are lucky to have him on our side.
@user-bn7bk5mw4s5 ай бұрын
Dear God I feel the same! Someone get me out of Woke World!!@😮😮😮
@conectariumastrologia35825 ай бұрын
Amazing channel. Two very smart people talking! Congratulations for your work, Andrew! I am reading ‘The master and his emissary’. This was another great way to hear about it!
@the_grand_tourer4 ай бұрын
As humanity dumbs down I find I’m educating myself by listening to humorous ironic experts like our clear headed Dr McGilchrist. I and others like me are not going to tip the balance, humanity is on an inevitable slide into narcissistic driven oblivion.
@Scarletpimpanel735 ай бұрын
and, it's not a mortal sin to be authentically wrong about something... your value as a person is not defined by of how correct you are. Loved this guest btw! Very sane.
@voices_vary5 ай бұрын
If I think back to my elementary school class, half of them were "on the spectrum" probably including myself! The thing is, I remember everyone so well because they were different and unique. Today, they label everyone and put them on meds to make them just like everyone else. It's horrible.
@excession30765 ай бұрын
People can only be unique and different within a society when the wider borders are clearly defined. Some things have to stay constant, some things have to be broadly agreed on, some things have to be the same for the vast majority. That leaves space for individuality.
@Khayyam-vg9fw5 ай бұрын
These days, people are all nails to be hammered down.
@voices_vary5 ай бұрын
@infiniteshoeblack I was tested as being almost completely right-brained. I've been very successful and very grateful for everything I have. I had little or no support from my family, but just kept imagining that I could do good things.
@voices_vary5 ай бұрын
@infiniteshoeblack So many "spectrum" kids are actually just late-bloomers. Often they start to bloom in 7-9th grades or so. I'm so sorry you were labeled and may have thought you were--in some way--broken. You were not!!! You were just different from a lot of ordinary kids! That's why I loved teaching art to young high school kids--they were blossoming as thinkers and people.
@marcodallolio97465 ай бұрын
Of course we must crush deviancy and difference! Especially when it comes to giving amphetamines to kids, that's very important to me, so they can manage to focus on homework and I can finally feel safe mental illness is being eradicated. Difference is weird and makes me uneasy. I want everyone to be predictable and harmless
@DannyWJaco5 ай бұрын
Compliments for the superb audio and video quality. And, for not having long introductions and small talk at the outset.
@andrewgoldheretics5 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it! I get shouted at for that usually
@TheOverlordOfProcrastination5 ай бұрын
It’s heartening to know that not everyone has lost their mind.
@MarciaMatthews5 ай бұрын
Dr. McGilchrist makes sense!
@user-dl7qu2fx6x5 ай бұрын
Good interview, Andrew. A piece of constructive advice given in good faith: you tend to 'gabble' just after you say something you're not certain about or that might be contentious. This is where the best interviewers pause and stay silent, allowing their guest to speculate/add to the conversation. The places where we are most uncomfortable are where the most interesting stuff comes from. It's a difficult skill to acquire but try it - your conversations will be far more interesting if you do.
@theshrubberer3 ай бұрын
I loved this so much and agree wholeheartedly with Dr. Iain's insights on what is broken in society today. Btw ...the Israeli linguist you wanted to recall is Guy Deutscher , I love his book The Unfolding of Language. Good job Andrew. I can relate to your career frustration over the producers discrediting or refusing to let you present because of your identity. I am a photographer and digital artist and have seen how competition in the arts are sickeningly biased to the biography of the artist rather than the submitted work itself.
@galathoughtart5 ай бұрын
As an early childhood educator, I was often in a position to teach the words and meanings of the language we use about gender. I like the answer given that we need to develop response based in compassion.
@2frogland5 ай бұрын
iain mccgilchrist is a beacon of knowledge amongst a few others in a world when this is sorely needed
@MrPedur5 ай бұрын
Stick and stone can break my bones - words can never hurt me. It causes pain to experience broken expectations. Expect little from others and live up to your promises for a harmonious existence.
@I.Reckon4 ай бұрын
"When things speak to us intuitively, they speak to us profoundly". It is not always advantageous to dissect and analyse our ambitions and desires.
@pelqel98935 ай бұрын
I think kids growing up with too much screen-time and not enough "real" socializing has indeed made them disabled.
@pelqel98935 ай бұрын
@infiniteshoeblack Poor kid! I guess tablets are becoming a substitute for interaction and play? Not good at all.
@Pneumanon5 ай бұрын
Jonathan Haidt has a recent presentation on that exact topic which relates to his new book The Anxious Generation.
@ph80774 ай бұрын
You mean "special?!"
@kt47745 ай бұрын
Excellent conversation. Thank you.
@stellafalconer67155 ай бұрын
What a fascinating interview, Andrew! One of your best; I learnt so much from this conversation where you both had much to contribute - thank you so much, and I also now have more books to add to my wish list (oh no!)
@johnl53165 ай бұрын
DEI has been shut down in FLORIDA...
@fionagregory91475 ай бұрын
I call it DIE
@cseguin5 ай бұрын
I was born with situs inversus - which, according to some studies, includes the brain. My hemispheres are switched - my right hemisphere is your left one . . . and since I write with right hand that means I'm a left-handed right-hander from the brain's perspective . . .
@thekeytoanything5 ай бұрын
Dr. Iain McGilchrist is the one that gave me the key to understand what I am doing with my brain and how to interpret others.
@soapboxsewer4215 ай бұрын
So glad I found this channel. Just the kinds of discussions we need. Civil, thoughtful and intelligent. Thank you.
@ogazm18655 ай бұрын
"I don't want to get bogged down in that discussion" : )
@VesnaVK5 ай бұрын
Seemed like a copout to me.
@-ucanthandledatruth01-125 ай бұрын
@@VesnaVK It is a normalised form of denial which sets a TERRIBLE example for humanity, but yet, they claimed they are the prime candidates to lead humanity....delusion. Type in "*acism and narcissism" by Richard Grannon
@-ucanthandledatruth01-125 ай бұрын
Evasion has been social defensive instrument for them throughout generations
@arthurchinaski37365 ай бұрын
Them?@@-ucanthandledatruth01-12
@niblogrape5 ай бұрын
That was brilliant, Andrew. Brilliant!
@oo7tease5 ай бұрын
Andrew mate , you are absolutely lovely.. everything you do every interview you conduct with genuine wonder and joy, Superb to have a conversation go in as if you know nothing, prepared to learn or hoping to learn something new.. Well done! absolutley a joy to watch and listen to. Thank you
@MaraKatria11 күн бұрын
Illuminating and jubilant conversation!
@helenperala3459Ай бұрын
Excellent. I love Iain's work so much. I rarely find myself disagreeing with anything he says which is wonderfully refreshing for me having NOT to explain how I feel because who I am listening to feels similarly! Opposites may attract but like minded folk are the balm for our souls.
@lalaboards5 ай бұрын
I’ve rejected every single ism every single movement since 1964. I refuse to adhere to environmentalism feminism sexism racism. I choose to use my own critical thinking skills and form my own opinions .
@philbd32755 ай бұрын
good for you but keep in ming that critical thinking is mostly about thinking against yourself
@tbobtbob3305 ай бұрын
"We need to build the humanities into our education system." EXACTLY how we got to where we are. It's people who really "think for themselves" who are so easily led to grotesque and tyrannical ideologies. I spent most of my life being very libertarian, but the older I get, the less faith I have in humans to not turn absolutely monstrous. I think my newer way of thinking was figured out thousands of years ago, and religion has been the compromise that optimizes freedom vs. conformity.
@maatthecat39664 ай бұрын
Wow, Andrew, you keep finding so many amazing & wonderful people doing marvellously beneficial things. Thank you so much for doing what you do.
@mountainhobbit19715 ай бұрын
I have to admit it was really nice to listen to this without the main focus being on all this 'gender/identity' type stuff. And it was also very interesting to listen to someone talk about emotions/feelings/intuition from a more 'analytical' point of view. oh and please stop lumping all American's as being all 'woke/far left leaning/no humor' types. ;-)
@theopenmindtherapist5 ай бұрын
Winnecott talked of 'reparenting'. On the journey to reparenting, our clients go from dependent and blaming children, to teenagers who are learning to flex their own wings, to adults who accept and see things for what they are in the here and now. I see this development, not in all cases, but in many, as essential to learning how to be an adult and cast off the victim mentality left with us and nurtured by popular cultural memes. The job of the therapist is not to blame the parents WITH the client, but to hold the space for the client to explore where they got stuck and how to grow and move on from that place.
@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf5 ай бұрын
When adults act like children what hope do the kids have
@ronyeahwiggie7292 күн бұрын
What a great conversation. I truly enjoyed it, even though it is going to cost me money. I have to get one of Dr. McGilchrist's books. I must dig deeper....
@alexnamzoff44432 ай бұрын
I heard someone point out once that taking responsibility literally gives you the ability to respond. If you blame someone else you may feel better in the short term but then you are dependent on someone else to change it.
@loreleifuffybutt5 ай бұрын
So interesting, Another great interview.
@slbe97215 ай бұрын
Buy Dr McGilchrist books, You will not regret it.
@melbournewolfАй бұрын
This is my favourite conversation, and as you can, go through the revisions of it, because this one changed the way I think fundamentally about myself.
@markdelepine27725 ай бұрын
I've read both of the big books and they were both eye openers and deeply confirming of how I am and what I value. To get a condensed review of literature from so many disciplines relevant to what to think about who we are and what we're here to do is priceless. I've gotten a lot of value from joining Channel McG too. Reading other people's reviews and reflections on what this man has written from many different informed positions is also enriching. Thank you Ian and thank you Andrew for the witty conversation.
@tensaijuusan46535 ай бұрын
We have severly underestimated the harm done by DEI / woke insanity to the social fabric.