Right-Brain Blackness
It’s only natural to have a complete thought. In “Basic Black: the Funky Sutra” I take the time, for my health, to clearly define what a complete thought is. It serves me well to see this new article at Wired, “Revenge of the Right Brain” by Daniel H. Pink taking my subject to places the authority figures don’t want to go:
The future no longer belongs to people who can reason with computer-like logic, speed and precision. It belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind.
And remember who is writing this post to you: I am a highly trained computer programmer. (You can test me constructively or you can ignore me—cut me off with your little sword.) Yet somehow, I celebrate comments like these. I do this because my education did not include assimilation… When I listen to an old blues song from my grandfather’s hometown, I can understand and feel the singer’s broken English—and respect it like the most diction-filled, articulate speech of a college professor. That is why I celebrate this praise of the right brain. However, the author seems so innocent, he does not take into account that the left-brain dominators, who carry swords in their right hand, will not go away without a fight. These people do not fight ‘fair.’ Because being fair means having complete thoughts. Think about it.