[Paleopsych] the prison of left vs. right

[HowlBloom at aol.com]

This cropped up in an email conversation with a friend from India tonight.  
It relates to things Michael Lockhart (anonymous_animus) and I have been 
discussing.

Abhinav Goyal: To be frank, I am a little confused about which side of the 
spectrum - right or left - do I really belong to?  

hb: it's disturbing that in India you feel compelled to fit into the two 
available stereotypes of political thought in the West.  

A choice between only two political approaches in a world of great complexity 
indicates that our political concepts are primitive and stifling.  

What's worse, it indicates that our politics are a  badge of identity, a 
decision about which of  two social groups we want to join.  The notion that they 
are useful or penetrating ideas is merely a blind, a disguise for a social 
choice.  

I suspect that the more you maintain a position above, below, and outside the 
acceptable spectrum of left and right, the more likely you are to produce 
thoughts of value to your fellow human beings.  Howard

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Howard Bloom
Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of 
History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 
21st Century
Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Core 
Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute
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