In the second part of my YouTube talk “The World of Work has Changed Forever – Factoryisation Proceeds Apace” I talk about the mechanistic, bureaucratic, controlling, reductionist, “specialist”, disenchanted direction society is heading and mention that Max Weber predicted this over a hundred years ago. Underlying all this must be a dynamic in the psyche, in the brain. What that is and how we can find (our own) meaning and start reboot society is very much what this article is about.
One of the 21stC characteristics is fragmentation – no longer do we have a common body of knowledge – other than vacuous “celebs” that the old media is so obsessed with. Thus one can come across folks who have never even heard about, say, Eckhart Tolle. A less Oprah-ed alt-celeb (?) name is Iain McGilchrist. If I could only recommended one living person whose work was a must-know-about it would be this chap.
I was reminded of him in a very recent and excellent ConsciousTV interview (more on that below). I certainly hadn’t previously got the fact that although he is a bona fide academically based rational guy that he really cares about not just the “intellectual correctness” of his work but more the impact of his work in changing people (the psychiatrist and alround nice guy in him).
As per our various levels of knowing about various stuffs some of you out there may have not heard of him. Some of you may have. Some of you may have read his first book. Few might know of his second book and I am sure next to none of you know about his forthcoming third book. Continue reading