[Ian]
Clearly short-hand naming of groups can be misused...

[Arlo]
Clearly.

[Ian]
... different people have different propensities to mental styles that use the 
different halves.

[Arlo]
No. The research says exactly otherwise. The research says specifically that 
'mental styles' ARE NOT lateralized. I understand this will take some time 
before pop-psychologists and self-help gurus are able to accept the research, 
but its embarrassing to see this repeated here over and over. 

What IS lateralized, Ian, are things like 'language' which tends... FOR 
EVERYONE... to be left-lateralized. 

Do people have varying aptitudes, skills, abilities, interests, proficiencies, 
goals, talents...? Gee, of course they do. Are people brought up in a culture 
where science and art are not only divorced but antagonistic? Of course. Has 
'art' been devolved in our schools by capital interests to a zero-value 
commodity? Of course. This was the problem space of ZMM.

Rather than normalize or naturalize 'classical' versus 'romantic' modes of 
thinking, and rather than then trying to invoke faulty pop-psychology to 
imprint this distinction onto the biological level, maybe you and John should 
join every one else here in the solution space, where Pirsig's goal was to 
problematize this artificial distinction- as derivative of SOM thinking- and 
unite/fuse these two at the basic level. 

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