Daniel Pink... (you know the kids teased him in school). Pink's ideas are resonating with me. I've heard similar concepts before, about ten years ago. I read a book called "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess" by Leonard Shlain, MD. It was/is a fascinating book that literally jumped off the shelf at me. The subtitle, "The Conflict Between the Word and Image" is what really pulled me in. The writer has powerful stories; check his biography: He is a brain surgeon who decided to study anthropology. He wanted to not only understand the mechanisms of the brain but also the multifarious products of it throughout history. The book is amazing, deep and mind bending as he illustrates the many examples of left versus right through time. Intellectual, articulate, and provocative, Shlain presents the argument that Pink endorses; that the brain is changing. Where Pink's focus is on the marketplace, economics and people's practical lives; Shlain illustrates his concepts using historical figures and concepts to show the conflict between left and right, male and female, yin and yang, birth and death. Shlain's book was/is so deep that I never fully finished it. Now I want to go back and soak it all up.
Shlain was traveling the Mediterranean, touring some of the many ancient ruins of Greece, Rome, Libya, Egypt, etc. Each site had a familiar background. They had been built to pay homage to a female deity, then at a certain time was transformed to a place to worship a male deity. He wondered what world shifting events caused the people, their brains to worship male deities at about the same time?
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