The Attack On Life and Understanding Our Times. A conversation with Iain McGilchrist and Mark Vernon 

Thank you ever so much for your work. I am a Psychotherapist in Germany, having studied at the IOP/King's College in London I remained connected to English Literature, and that is why I came across your book The Master and His Emissary. It changed the way I do therapy massively and patients are benefitting from it enormously, affecting change where in former times years of therapy were needed! Getting the people to feel, be in contact with themselves, excercising wisdom and compassion, knowing about the different ways of attending the world helps to overcome fears and depression in ways not possible using more traditional therapeutic approaches. Many of my patients develop a fulness of experience they weren't able to before the onset of their disorders. Which proves to me that illness can be seen as a search for a way to heal ones life that very often is damaged by societal system failure. But in the same way I experience healing effects using an approach that I developed out of your wisdom, knowledge and a way, to make sense of the meaning of life. It even came to a point where I was trusting my intuition that much that it helped me tackle daily life problems in miraculous ways, showing me that indeed we are connected to something far greater than us out there, which is beyond our physical senses. So thank you very much for your being with us in these most challenging of times. 🙏🌍

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="900">15:00</a> Iain appeals that we all fight back to regain our liberties lost through Government diktats this past 2 years. I absolutely agree and it's so encouraging to hear his practical wisdom on real life current issues.

Dear Mr McGillChrist ,I totally agree with you... ironically,it is thanks to technology that we can hear your lovely voice...speaking words of wisdom.humanity is an endangered species... I feel alive when I listen to the Amazing song of a Blackbird....when I bury a seed in the soil and watch it grow ,when I contemplate life unfolding before my eyes...when I see a bee land on a blackberry flower to enjoy it's nectar... When I enjoy eating the fruit that I watched change colour and become soft and sweet ...almost ready to pick .yes we live in a world where children are no longer enchanted by the song of a Blackbird...but yet get excited by the buzz of a twit on their phone....what kind of world do we want to live in?There is much healing to be done for humanity to reconnect to its intuition...to life itself. Thank you Mr McGillChrist,you are an inspiration 💕

I hypothesize that our intuition is fed by our “periphery “. What I mean by this is that we are always taking in information subconsciously like body language. If we are living in and connected to Nature we are also alerted to things by the activity happening within earshot and attention. We call intuition a “feeling” because it is a kind of spiritual touch. This is truly indicative of being “connected”. Intuition, like all capabilities, must be experienced, practiced, so that discernment can be honed over time. I have come to rely heavily on intuition which for most of my life I distrusted because I didn’t understand that I could cooperate with it.

Very important topics - we must regain our humanity!

Dr. McGilchrist is a “voice crying in the wilderness “. Thank you so much.

I am reading Matthias Desmet's recent book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism. Its theme fits precisely with what is being discussed here. It, like Iain McGilchrist's recent work, warns us about the change of values that leads to technological control or enslavement of vast populations.

Iain's ideas are so inspiring and helpful in these mechanical times. Greetings from Turkey.

Thank you. i for one am creating and seeking alternatives. Simplifying lifestyles is the start.

In my family, there is the story of the way my 17 year old grandfather, who had longed to join the military, signed up for Army service in the early 1930s. On the spot, the recruiter immediately informed him, without a lot of bureaucratic to-do, of his assignment somewhere in Europe. As Grandpa was whistling down the stairs he ran into his buddy, who had also just joined up, and directly told that he would be going to China. “Hey, I’ve always wanted to go to China! Let’s swap assignments,” said my young (future) grandad, at which point both young men hustle back to the recruiting office and make the switch right there on the spot. Long story short: my grandpa eventually winds up meeting my Russian grandma in Shanghai, a meeting without which I never would have been born (at least, not as “me”). Such a turn of events would have been impossible in our technolatrous age, and thus I never would have been.

THE FIRE IN THE SONG (excerpt) He said, "If you only stop singing I'll make you safe." And he repeated the line, knowing you would hear "I'll make you safe" as the comforting sound of a door closed on the fear at last but his darkness crept under your tongue and became the dim cave where you sheltered and you grew in that small place too frightened to remember the songs of the world, its impossible notes, and the sweet joy that flew out the door of your wild mouth as you spoke. - David Whyte

When we try to suppress doubt we are creating evil. I’ll be thinking about this for some time.

Thank you Mark and Iain for exploring these important elements of life. So many nails struck firmly on the head. I am particularly delighted to hear Iain discuss the relevance of his hypothesis to how we dysfunction as a society, I share his concern deeply.

My wife did a fine art course, she got to the stage where the students were expected to make artists statements about themselves and the work. She referred to this as, "making sh*t up". Which is the best description of it I've heard.

I am of the view that psychopathology is driving much of what we are experiencing. I believe it was Otto Kernberg who discussed how an institution can be impacted by psychopathology at the top of the tree via conscienceless CEOs and directors. It leaves senior and middle managers running around like headless chickens with ennervated limbic systems and the face workers feeling completely powerless and put upon. This appears to me to be an appropriate analogy for our current, collective circumstances.

This beautifully orchestrated conversation resounds with good vibrations . . . uplifting in face of impersonal evils.

Personally, I don't believe in a pure force of evil, but rather the absence of good. It's important to stay alert to it all the same, and I remain open to the idea. Another divine discussion. Thank you.

I am very interested in what you state about power and control. I am in my late 50's and I have certainly noticed the change. Brace yourself for a generalisation: When I was starting in the world of employment, it was certainly far from perfect. People got jobs because of factors and influences that we would now certainly, and rightly, reject. We might also reject the hierarchy and structure of authority that existed then. However, there were certain advantages to the "old" system. Firstly, tasks were largely done out of a sense of personal responsibility to the group and to oneself. Decisions were obeyed because of seniority, yet, but also out of a certain type of respect. How the system has changed. Now the 'Disciplinary,' or threat of a 'Disciplinary,' is the stick that beats the workforce into compliance. Sadly, constantly working under this threatening cloud can have an overwhelmingly deadening impact on creativity and camaraderie with ones fellow employees. There is also a tendency to feel as if you work for a process, rather than for a team or for an individual you respect. Fear, in short, is the order of the day. It has almost got the point when all the employees I respect have been 'disciplined' at least twice. They are the people who tend to demonstrate common decency and initiative. The type of qualities that can get you into real trouble with the power structure backed by HR, ever out to justify its ever-expanding empire.

Man, we sure need a conversation like this!

This discussion helped me to accept that my ideas are in alignment with this whole discussion. Here in my later years (82), I wondered if it is I ...who is clinging to the past and harboring ideas that seem to be out of sync with the general population. This is true and very isolating to a great degree. But, I finally accepted my way of looking at life and make every attempt to live it from my understanding and not from what I believe will be acceptable to others...especially the masses! This discussion really helped me...I am so in sync, with all of the ideas presented...that I need to question some things...just to be on the save side! Lol

I don’t know who said it but I recall reading a theory that civilizations often collapse under the weight of their own bureaucracy. Seems like a good description of what is happening.

Another deeply nourishing discussion. Thank you!

Thank God! At last a major philosopher who is seeing clearly and daring to talk directly about evil and the situation we're living in right now. So sad that there are so many great thinkers - Wilber, Smacktenburger, all the careerist left-brainers on 'Rebel Wisdom' etc' fail to grasp the real problem of evil.

Our current egoism, in its “antagonism towards life, spirit, & nature,” is a plague much worse than anything we’ve knowingly experienced. Given over to our left-hemisphere delusions, we’ve set out to become our own gods & in so doing cast aside the very need for relationship that makes us human.

I found Mark's comments on imagination and the differences with fantasy absolutely fascinating, really chimed with my own experience in art. It's easy to whimsically cascade down a line of thought, but as soon as you get a bleep on the imaginative radar from an observably exterior source, you almost know you must double your efforts. thank you both

"The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant." Hannah Arendt

Thanks for this. I began delving into McGilchrist's work about two years ago, and I found that it pulled together a lifetime of philosophical themes which I have explored. Also, importantly, his work has provided an effective lens through which to interpret the events in society over the past two years (which of course, are only an amplification of trends that have been developing for much longer). So, it is very satisfying for me to hear McGilchrist speak explicitly about this subject, and that my interpretations of his work have been accurate.

I just ADORE these conversations!! So perfect for both our present situation and for me to listen to as I create my art pieces. ❤

This feels like one of if not the most important understandings we need right now...it is so clearly what our modern collective trance is..and exponential tech is in a death spiral with exponential left hemispheric qualities..disembodied..virtual..capitalistic..I never hear either of you speak on recurring cycles though..like in "the fourth turning"..these left hem right hem shifts every 20 years..hero to artist ect are implied as we toggle through history.circling back every 60 years to a left hem fourth turning that we are right in the middle of..it would add an even deeper level to this essential vision thank you both unbelievably beautiful Souls that you are

Iv been listening to this beautiful articulation of thought from Ian for sometime. We are lurching from appreciating detail to efficiency. Time has become the driver of human interaction and distracts the necessity of the moment. Strange that we can’t individually determine our outcome but are still enslaved by the external narrative waves that surround us!

I thoroughly enjoyed this adult and sane conversation, we must hold on to our god given humanity and not be pushed into some dystopian future. It is important to stop and smell the roses from time to time.

Thank you both for giving voice to my intuitions. Thank you for the affirmation of consciousness.

I love this and this came up on my FB feed at just the right moment as I have just finished reading the late Colin Wilson's book Access to Inner Worlds in which he talks about how the Huna people see the machinations of the mind which is much like the way Anthony Peake sees it with his Daemon/Eidolon dyad and it not only makes sense to me but I have been able to communicate with the Right brain and do what Wilson said we can do and that is bring about the futures we want to experience. The problem is those who control society have locked us into our left brain where we have become very mechanical and robotic, this serves them as they have billions of people repeating the same daily pattern of work, rest, sleep and work again. I have never been unable to understand where this civilization is going except to see it's shuffling towards its inevitable doom. There are ways of breaking out of this mechanical left brain prison using Gurdjieff's techniques, using entheogens I used meditation and was able to experience for me what was one of my dream jobs. When you can do that then it ceases to be work for those interested I ended up working in pro football with a former England manager who loved my work and said it's a shame we never met when he was the England national manager. At the club, we would hypnotise players to facilitate their performances on the pitch and again it worked sport is more to do with intuition especially sport where speed of movement is important and this is why sportsmen spend years training every day so that their reactions are done without thought that seems to be a right-brain action what I call the subconscious mind and others call the higher self are being used by them.

As an American, I learned of the two hemisphere's thesis through a published work of a Consciousness Researcher, author, and physicist Tom Campbell. In his model of Reality, he places the base of his spectrum containing fear, belief, and ego and the finishing end of his spectrum the love of others and the state of Being. He defines the left hemisphere as the home of the Intellect and the right hemisphere as the home of the Intuition. His 800+ page published work goes into the details in a lot of depth. Keep digging guys, and Good Luck.

I appreciated your brilliant conversation. Was very healing to hear. You are Elders speaking to the human tribe. Peace and blessings

Wonderful conversation, thank you Dr. McGilchrist & Mark Vernon!

What a nourishing and rich and timely conversation. I have been wondering if the relationship between our brain hemispheres is becoming even further dysregulated by the juggernaut of these times. It seems as if our right hemispheres are perpetually being pulled into sympathetic system duty, 'which prepares the body to face the unknown, because it is on the alert-to whatever is not familiar, not already certain" (page 867, The Matter with Things, footnoted to four sources) and we all get stuck in constant doom-scrolling. Might it be that after years of emergency that function becomes exhausted, and tips to the left hemisphere, which then imposes familiar theory, normalcy bias, paradigms, theologies, abstractions, and so allows parasympathetic rest, but sort of delusional rest? Just at the moment when we need our dreams, our creativity, our intution, and the implicit to know and understand how to participate in a wave pushing away from the direction the world is going? I caught a fragment of a dream in which my guitar and violin were burning, and days later --- it always takes time ---I realized that I needed to live the zen proscription to live as if I was already dead, meaning to let go of trying to find the pattern of the future (will America fall at the next election? Will more old growth burn? Will there be famine? Will people go more crazy? etc.), and let my right hemisphere, like Kekule on the London bus, work outside my awareness, but feed it, sort of, with poems and narratives and music, and wait for what it throws up on the shore. I really think all of our right hemispheres, which may be more attuned to each other than we know, far beyond the wet dreams of the technocrats, know what we need to do, but we have to treat them like the Oracle at Delphi to find what that is. Maybe in a Julian Jaynes-ish fashion, we need to make offerings to them, treating them as the small gods of our being. Or so I think this Holy Saturday lol.

Thank you both so much for this sane, adult conversation xxx

I have never had a mobile phone except for emergencies (and it was a flip phone) either! I now feel I’m in very good company. Thank you Dr. McGilchrist for having the seen the destructive effect of the mobile phone and for not allowing yourself to be influenced by it! I very rarely “meet” other people who have seen this as clearly as you and I have, so I just had to make a comment.

I totally agree with your point about the mobile phone. I am reminded of my Uncle Ken Williams. He was a policeman - who consistently refused promotion - on Anglesey. He told be that he knew when it was time to retire. It was when they introduced the 'walkie-talkie.' He knew from that moment that he had forever lost his autonomy and become a puppet under the control of a master. Likewise with my mobile phone. I refer to it as 'the wife and work's tracker.' I make sure that it works for me, rather than me working for it. Putting it off, I tell people, saves energy and is therefore good for the environment. I told a lady this recently and she thought it was an affront to common decency and an example of being a 'bad and irresponsbile husband.' When I told her that I was happy to leave it (the phone) at home sometimes she looked at me as if I had just robbed the Poor Box.

Extraordinarily pertinent thoughts being expressed under our current predicament. Thank you!

Thank you Iain. Your work is exceptional. Thank you Mark. Superb conversation full of gist.

This convo is The Holy Grail. Simply listen and promote it

Speaking as a (very) disaffected bureaucrat…most of it is laziness. Arse covering and lack of imagination play their part too, but mostly it’s just people being too lazy to win people over.

In 'Escape from Freedom' Erich Fromm differentiates the two types of power this way: "The word power has a twofold meaning. One is the possession of power over somebody, the ability to dominate him; the other meaning is the possession of power to do something, to be able, to be potent. The latter meaning has nothing to do with domination; it expresses mastery in the sense of ability. (…) Thus power can mean one of two things, domination or potency. Far from being identical, these two qualities are mutually exclusive. (…) To the extent to which an individual is potent, that is, able to realize his potentialities on the basis of freedom and integrity of his self, he does not need to dominate and is lacking the lust for power. Power, in the sense of domination, is the perversion of potency, just as sexual sadism is the perversion of sexual love."

Brilliant conversation. More people should see this! Thanks so much.

You don’t ‘have a life’ Life ‘has’ you … You ARE Life…. The only division in existence is the mind of man Cheers 🍻

It's funny how many of my working-middle class friends of an age express these very same ideas...albeit, not with the same level of erudition, still - we're all noticing the collapse of the smallest transactions, particularly those of us, who remember a world that still worked on some level. CHEERS, LADS...FROM ST. LOUIS, MO!

The adventures of life are a journey. Again, thank you, Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Mark Vernon, for this discussion of enormous insights of liberation of ourselves. I am like a child with cotton candy all over my hands and mouth, I have had to stop on a road lost that splits both ways. Which one do I choose? The one home? On the right? Or do I choose left? I think I will wait and learn more. Imagination and intuition as I learn more listening to the most invigorating discussions I have ever had the opportunity to listen to. Again, thank you for all of your books.

Really enjoyed this conversation. Thank you.

Wonderful discussion. I’m struggling through the Master and the Emissary at the moment and found this so much more accessible. I’d add that my struggle with the book is the sheer volume of information and ideas packed into every line. When McGilchrist pointed out that behaving like time is linear and the further we advance along it the more distant the thing we seek to leave behind becomes, has resonance with the ancient Chinese Medicine idea that at the extremes of yin or yang they transform into one another. All things have opposition, interdependence, mutually consume and transform into each other. As our world moves further toward extremes there will be more flipping to the opposite polarity. The unprecedented Freedoms we grew up with in the West are flipping onto various forms of enforced submission and control. Conversely China’s increasing extremes of control are driven by ruling dynasty’s fear that the most violent expression of freedom in the form of revolution is an ever present threat to in their survival.

Thank you for this introduction to McGilchrist' work and a very rich discussion, just what I have been wrestling with, the tsunami of tech, feeling so inevitable, like we are on the Titanic!

It is soothing just to watch the introduction and listen to you two speak. Thank you!

I attended therapy which I refer to ancient wisdom and in that environment was the only environment where I eventually could speak let alone speak my truth. I felt safe there!! As an elementary school teacher, I was very unique and magical and in my 11.1 years of teaching and learning only one principal recongized my talents as it was far from the pedagogy of academia.

I would love to see a conversation with Dr. McGilchrist and Paul Kingsnorth.

This discussion is a healing balm. Thank you.

Thank you .

An excellent presentation and certainly addresses the urgency of our time... good ppl have been led far away from the very basics of human interaction...extremism is narrative of the day...neighbors now often lost the importance of communication... instead opting to spout out hatred and disengagement that is the result of the massive psyop that has been spoon fed us...the importance of acting as responsible adults is now more of utmost importance...and coming together to identify the true evil that drives this unnatural rule of the day...I believe as do many others that we truly are seeing the battle for our souls playing out...I agree 100% with you both when addressing the fear of death playing a major role in a fear driven society....the quest for immortality really is the legend one leaves behind....great show... cheers from Mexico

What a conversation I never cease to amazed at how little I know. The discussion on evil was fascinating, I have repeated the Lord's prayer a million times throughout my life it never dawned on me what deliver us from evil can mean thank you

Thank you so much, a wonderful reminder on the topics worth keeping current.

Mark Vernon provides deep insights in this conversation - hopefully there will be a part 2 and beyond.

fascinating talk here.full marks👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾❤️can anyone imagine our leaders participating with these two guys in this debate............................. ...............................................maybe not.

I found this video on my phone and watching it now on my phone. LOL

Excellent conversation.

this is an important and well-nformed discussion. thank you so much for this gem of sanity in the midst of madness

Good talk. Thanks. Great new book too. Only finished the first volume so far because it keeps making think all sorts of new ideas😃

Also keeping oneself safe should not stop us from being courageous and adventuresome. Safety to me is based on the ability to use intuition and wisdom in the moment when we might be doing something foolish.

Thank you for expressing many of the observations I have experienced in my own walk in the new world. I will consider the need for higher fences in my garden of life.

Mattias Desmet speaks clearly about the mass formation on modern society which acts like a hypnotic trick. Complements this brilliant discussion here. Thank God He exists and He is the one really having the last say and not us humans. Because of our fallen, sinful nature we will go in circles, down and down and then God rescues us again but soon it will be an end to this.

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2802">46:42</a> ''The desire might have been originally good'' No. It was always an attack on male students. ''Safety'' is a word always used to demonize them.

Thank you mr. McGilchrist for your honesty. But it worries me when a gentle man like you are this radical and direct. The future looks grim. Will we be able to turn the upcoming events around, for the better?

I didn´t switc off Iain,- this is my second time listening carefully :) Thanks a lot.

Thank you!

Iain, you're a good lad

All I know is that if we really are going to find the solutions for our problems, we can if we’re keen , and believing that we can! I’m not talking about left or right, because we’re created this separation, I’m talking about normal life based on truth !

Conversation backed by ACTION!!!!! 1 discussion at a time

“The desire to be safe is fine as long as it puts the responsibility on you to keep yourself safe but once you put the responsibility on other people to make the world safe around you, you’ve exported the responsibility. One of the things one has to do in the mental health world is to get people to take responsibility for their feelings not to blame others for them, and to say that if you react that way and you feel that, then let’s see what you’re doing to make that happen because it’s not going to be about changing anybody else it will be about changing you. That in itself points out that there needs to be a degree of discipline if there’s going to be freedom. If it's not us having self control, then external controls, oppressive regimes will take over." Iain McGilchrist

I urge readers of Master and Emissary to read Morris Berman's 'Twilight of American Culture' - which was written in 2000. On page 119 Berman says the following "The logical endpoint of this is a purely technocratic Weltenschang, the vision of a totally administered world." Iain McGilchrist's unique contribution is the realisation that the left hemishphere will take over if it is not restrained. But the phenomenon of "dumbing down" - the closing of the American mind etc etc - has been written about for 40 years by many authors. Berman describes what is going on socially and McGilchrist explains the biology behind it.

Thank you gentlemen, a fascinating and nourishing discussion, and with a message which is so welcome in these troubled times. May goodness and truth prevail!

I experienced this in a dialogue with a loved one. I was told as to transgenderism had no right to address it at all. And in another conversation with the same daughter she chastised me for expressing a not totally thought through Point. I took the time to express the importance of developing a point through dialogue which to her defence she listened and acknowledged it was true.

Great talk thankyou. Evil is to be steered down, agree, not to be turned away from. We need to individually and collectively take responsibility for it in our consciousness. We could call this 'sin'. It does look as though that 'sin' belongs 'on others' (outside us) and we will of course project it unless we can take responsibility for it. Take responsibility for it but not make ourselves 'wrong' for it. We need to be able to look at this in the full knowing it is not the Truth. It does need to be forgiven, forgiven from within and surrendered to God (the God Self) so we can be shown the Truth of who and what we are and come to know it. Let us hold each other in a loved and healed place whilst we do the work. Blessings. x

Thank you so much for this fascinating talk. More please, especially about the vision of what humans can be! 😁

"The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way." -- Milton Mayer "They thought they were free"

I would question Dr. McGilchrist's assertion that technology is "only as good or bad as the people using it". This stance, named "instrumentalism" in the philosophy of technology, fails entirely to account for the monumental transformation that technology, even when viewed in isolation of the motives of its users, has effected on our world. Indeed, the current technology system is so utterly beyond our "control" that to suggest there is anyone at the helm of its expansion is ludicrous. Yes, there are technicians, but as Jacques Ellul points out, the drive towards greater technologisation "technique", is embedded within the nature of modern technology itself. Each innovation begets the next. It is precisely this sense of powerlessness at the hands of technology that I think is largely responsible for the fetishisation of power that is discussed in this podcast.

Excellent discussion thank you so much gentlemen I enjoyed it tremendously I'm 61 now and life is really starting to suck

Thank you for this talk

Knowledge is more firm than Belief

Thank you so much.

I like that we all seem to be waking up together to the apparent fact that McGilchrist is a very special voice.

Beautiful, as usual.

Good conversation… Should be “clipped” & with time stamp descriptions

Goodness, sounds like my internal daily dialogue 😂.

I really identify with a lot of what you are saying!

We don’t go to war for ‘disrespecting’ one another. But a ‘madman’ would.

Wonderful discussion!

I think there is something very important missing from the ideas of McGilchrist - the concept of IMPRINTING, or to put it another way, the importance of early experience in the passing on of a culture. The point about imprinting, as noted by Konrad Lorenz and studied by his follower Eible Eibestfeldt is that it occurs in a limited time window and is then pretty much fixed. The names of these early ethologists are missing from 'the master and his emissary'. Along with this goest he concept of 'neuronal plasticity' through synaptic pruning in the early years, and through pruning plus selective myelination in adolescence. The former appears to establish 'intersubjectivity' only when a baby gets the appropriate cues from a mother or carer, with attachment also involved to create a trusted source and protector. Evidence of this comes from studies of Rumanian orphans - they tend to have the basic form of autism. Imprinting determines the wiring of the brain to optimise it for certain modes of thinking. It is not the same as learning by strengthening connections. The later phase of imprinting might be expected to establish empathy and other patterns of interaction in teenagers. Both are failing owing to breakdown in continuity as mothers go out to work and teenagers are exposed to the hell of a school with 3000 pupils and mobile phones plus social media. Rather than talk of 'finding' some fundamental quality of life, I think we should recognise that meaning is generated within a society, which exists because it can survive, and is maintained by imprinting (plus learning). When that breaks down, the society collapses. All sorts of societies can exist in theory and survive, and what is right or wrong or evil is purely a property of each culture. A society of psychopaths can survive and thrive, but only when it can feed off an existing society that has empathy. Once out society collapses so will the Technopoly, unless it can keep slave labour going. Stalin killed remorselessly, but kept going for decades using a model of fear, culling and slavery. As others have commented here, the breakdown of our society was planned (as called for by Gramsci) and executed using the tools of Postmodernism and Woke ideology. This ability of a few to plan the destruction of a society is key, and to endure a society needs protection and vigilance. The Christian religion provided major checks against psychopaths doing what it called evil, but was not consistent with science and reason after the Enlightenment. I propose a new enlightenment, with a new religion that teaches this sort of stuff to children, with the emphasis on empathy, thus giving them a basis for meaning in a post-Darwinian world.

It's such a delight to see God's gift given to Iain. I pray for his soul salvation so he can be truly enlightened. If onky he could know how much clarity he would have in his thinking and gifting. I thank God for Iain. You are in my prayers Sir.

I judge each ‘thing’ as it is happening and presented to me, and you should too! I never brush a group of things with the same stroke, until I have examined it!

money being wasted on the administration of bureaucracy, technology and control is shutting out small business and shutting down humanity

It's sad to see the acceptance of things like QR codes by two highly intelligent people and their acquiescence to a new world of control.