Joseph Stiglitz : The end of neoliberalism and the rebirth of history

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75. being right handed is 'human nature' but we don't have to do everything right handed

human ancestors started like chimpanzees - about 50-50 right handed and then we became 90-10 right handed about 100,000 years ago because being right handed offered a survival advantage - it gave us sex on the wrong brain. that's what happens when impatient satisfaction-demanding reproductive impulses are diverted from emotion, sex, orgasm, and reproduction to fuel mental processes that were meant to be patient and objective. when those reproductive impulses are used to fuel parts of the brain/processes used for quantification/measurement/comparison they want more/bigger/faster - greed. when they fuel problem solving/logic etc they just want to get the thinking over with - quick easy answers, binary absolutes, premature conclusion, certainty.

that's been producing greed and materialism and various other symptoms related to an increased need to avoid uncertainty - like fear, authoritarianism, absolutism, extremism, sexual dysfunction, etc.

sex on the wrong brain gave right handers an advantage in times of conflict, as populations grew, as we began to delay the age of reproduction, and as we began to repress sex. it got worse in human populations (older civilizations) that have been using value systems to select for brains structure that accentuated those symptoms - like authoritarian subservience, materialism, etc.

suspicious, greedy, sociopath columbus meets the friendly, curious natives, for example

and due to anatomy it's worse in males.

strong democracy can beat it but there'd be a whole lot less sex on the wrong brain if we just went ahead and stopped learning sex with the wrong hand.

fuck that self destruction due to greed and authoritarian bullshit just because the authoritarians are so fucked up they freak out at the mention of the word 'masturbation', thus perpetuating more sex on the wrong brain - the secret of authoritarian power.

nothing is inevitable, especially which hand we masturbate with... there's a book about it