The left hemisphere regards words as tokens that can be manipulated to mean what we like, not living, embodied signs, with a history. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

McGilchrist’s main thesis is that we, western civilization and, I would guess, any civilization emulating it, live entirely too much in the left brain way of processing and looking at things… this release of words from their ties to an embodied cultural history is what has given rise to a situation where it is possible to say, “facts don’t matter, what people believe, matters”…