The linear path is seductive to the left hemisphere’s mindset in its directness and simplicity. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

Our difficulty in finding meaning in our lives, can, I suspect, be attributed to a linear way of looking at the world around us. It is a failure to appreciate the interconnectedness of all of it; that a spherical way of embracing the world and our relationship to it is more meaningful; that collective tending of what we are enmeshed in is the most meaningful response to it; that perpetual linear growth is not the way the universe works.