This article by Thomas Sheridan from the 2010´s is actually quite interesting, for a number of reasons. First, he *does* have a point when he attacks obsessive-compulsive debunkers and wonders whether they are somehow trapped in their left brain hemispheres, cognitively speaking. The left brain sees the world as all mechanism. (Compare Iain McGilchrist´s ideas, which I have commented elsewhere on this blog.)
However, it struck me when reading it that almost the same things Sheridan inputes to skeptical atheists-materialists could equally well be applied to many "truthers", conspiracy theorists and cultish pseudo-scientists. Is my man projecting? More likely we´re dealing with a personality type which can express itself both as aggressive "skepticism" and as equally aggressive "true believer" cultism.
Indeed, there is a certain kind of true believer that is just as autistically obsessed with "logic", excessive details and never-ending flame wars as the "debunkers", and just as beholden to certain select authority figures. Could they *be* autists of some kind? Their irony-deficiency is also a thing.
As a side note, Sheridan mentions a purge of alt-media taking place in July 2018. Wait a minute...
The summer of 2018 was also when Amazon purged me and a host of other "biased reviewers" from their site! Not sure what to make of this. Maybe I should use my noetic intuition...
Sheridan doesn´t have any solution to the left brain predicament, indeed, there simply isn´t any. Some people simply are hard-wired in this way, and that´s that. Instead, he calls on every free individual to pursue his/her own path of spiritual improvement and personal fulfillment. I end with a quote:
>>>Use your intuition and ignore them. You do not need their validation and approval, as they are only interested in what the men in the white coats tell them that which is a ’fact’. Be polite and continue to follow your own field of study and knowledge path, and then see where it leads you.
>>>This may lead you nowhere, but so what. The journey is often more important than the destination. Your life will be more rewarding, creative, and enriching by allowing your right brain to take part in the imagination of yourself within this five-sense reality we call human existence.
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