Stirbt die Gesellschaft am Hirndefekt?
Aktuelles vom Gehirn, passt genau in die Problemlage:
Why are so many woke leftists bad at understanding others? Brain science may have the answer.”
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist argues that the left hemisphere of the brain is literal-minded and poor at “theory of mind” — the ability to truly grasp what someone else is thinking,… pic.twitter.com/7f1V2ukrqP
— Camus (@newstart_2024) April 9, 2026
Aus dem Tweet (einen doppelten Absatz weggelassen):
Why are so many woke leftists bad at understanding others? Brain science may have the answer.”
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist argues that the left hemisphere of the brain is literal-minded and poor at “theory of mind” — the ability to truly grasp what someone else is thinking, especially when irony, humor, or metaphor is involved.
He believes modern culture — and particularly the rigid, black-and-white thinking common in today’s culture wars and leftist discourse — has become overly dominated by left-hemisphere processing. The result? Humor is dying, jokes are taken literally, nuance disappears, and genuine empathy becomes rare.
McGilchrist sees this as a civilizational shift: we’ve lost the right-hemisphere’s broader, contextual understanding in favor of simplistic, contradiction-free slogans.
It’s a provocative neurological explanation for why so much modern political conversation feels so disconnected and humorless.
Do you see this literal-mindedness more on the political left, or is it happening across the spectrum?
Auch das passt zu meiner Beobeachtung, dass denen organisch oder funktional etwas im Hirn fehlt.