No it doesn't. The discussion of socalled "rigthbrain/ leftbrain " aries outside Black nationalist discusision.
>>> Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/10/2008 9:55 PM >>> Actually, all this means is that Wright is just another crackpot black cultural nationalist, a typical obscurantist mediocrity produced by black nationalism. It's bad enough to be a preacher, but to peddle this ignorant bullshit makes one wonder why Obama was so impressed by him. At 05:35 PM 5/10/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >In his talk to the Detroit NAACP dinner , Rev. Wright discussed >linguistics (Black and Standard English) . He mentioned the old >"left-brain/rightbrain" thingy from about 30 years ago. His dichotomy >was "subject thinking" /object thinking". > >As I thought about it later, this could be "subject thinking" is to >"object thinking" as imitative thinking is to symbolic thinking. > >subject thinking : object thinking :: imitative thinking; symbolic >thinking > >(Actually thought of the latter when a little boy imitated me with a >salute greeting) > >picture or imtiative thinking is one function ( we share that with >other species;"monkey see monkey do"). Symbolic thinking as highly >developed as our's is ,is unique to humans. Symbolic thinking involves >using something to represent something that it is not , an object or >something outside something else represents something that it is not. >The marks on a page 'dog" are identified with something that they are >not identical to, an actual dog. ( See anthropologist Leslie white's >deinition of "symbol" in this regard; see any elementary anthroplogy >textbook. Picture thinking or representations on the otherhand >"imitate: or similate what they represent. They are similar, not >different , than what they represent. > >The prime example of the most objective thinking is writing. originally >it was speaking, but at any rate through language. > >Wright actually referred to "learning styles". His "subjective" >thinking involved learners who sympathize with the teacher. They learn >by thinking in terms of "subjects" or imitating other human individuals >(subjects). The other learning style is through "objects" as, Wright put >it. >I then made the "mental slide" from thinking though objects to >"objective thinking". Then I though of sympathizing with another >subject as imitating another person type thinking. > >Anyway, it was an update and connection ( in my frontal lobes ; smile) >between that old ideas of rightbrain/leftbrain, subject/object, >picturethinking/wordthinking, imitate/symbol. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
