“A century ago, the physical environment was for most of humanity that of the natural world, with its rhythms and cycles, its organic, ever-growing and ever-changing interdependent life, a world to which it seemed intuitively obvious that we belong; now it has been replaced for many by an unyielding, inert, confrontational environment of non-living surfaces, straight lines, concrete masses and largely generic shapes, which are widely experienced as alienating. (…)
There is a self-reflexive hall of mirrors at work, where logic seems to lead back to a solution within the system itself, rather than a need to break out of it.”
Iain McGilchrist – The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (2018)
Writer Between Worlds 